NET Bible
"Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him, but pushed him aside and turned back to Egypt in their hearts,"
— Acts 7:39, NET Bible
“To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,”
“to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but thrust him from them, and turned back in their hearts unto Egypt, ”
“to whom our fathers wouldn't be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,”
“Whom our fathers would not obey: but thrust him away and in their hearts turned back into Egypt,”
“By whom our fathers would not be controlled; but they put him on one side, turning back in their hearts to Egypt,”
“To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,”
This man led them out, performing wonders and miraculous signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.
This is the Moses who said to the Israelites,‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’
This is the man who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors, and he received living oracles to give to you.
Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him, but pushed him aside and turned back to Egypt in their hearts,
saying to Aaron,‘Make us gods who will go in front of us, for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt– we do not know what has happened to him!’
At that time they made an idol in the form of a calf, brought a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing in the works of their hands.
But God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:‘It was not to me that you offered slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, house of Israel?