Acts 7:41
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And they made a calf in those days and offered sacrifices to the idol and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

they.

Exodus 32:2-8,17-20 And Aaron said to them: Take the golden earrings from the ears of your wives, and your sons and daughters, and bring them to me. . . .

Deuteronomy 9:12-18 And said to me: Arise, and go down from hence quickly: for thy people, which thou hast brought out of Egypt, have quickly forsaken the way that thou hast shewn them, and have made to themselves a molten idol. . . .

Nehemiah 9:18 Yea when they had made also to themselves a molten calf, and had said: This is thy God, that brought thee out of Egypt: and had committed great blasphemies:

Psalm 106:19-21 They made also a calf in Horeb: and they adored the graven thing. . . .

rejoiced.

Isaiah 2:8,9 And their land is filled with horses: and their chariots are innumerable. Their land also is full of idols: they have adored the work of their own hands, which their own fingers have made. . . .

Isaiah 44:9-20 The makers of idols are all of them nothing, and their best beloved things shall not profit them. They are their witnesses, that they do not see, nor understand, that they may be ashamed. . . .

Hosea 9:1,10 Rejoice not, O Israel: rejoice not as the nations do: for thou hast committed fornication against thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor. . . .

Habakkuk 2:18-20 What doth the graven thing avail, because the maker thereof hath graven it, a molten, and a false image? because the forger thereof hath trusted in a thing of his own forging, to make dumb idols. . . .

Context
Stephen's Address to the Sanhedrin
40Saying to Aaron: Make us gods to go before us. For as for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him. 41And they made a calf in those days and offered sacrifices to the idol and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. 42And God turned and gave them up to serve the host of heaven, as it is written in the books of the prophets: Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me for forty years, in the desert, O house of Israel?…
Cross References
Exodus 32:4
And when he had received them, he fashioned them by founders' work, and made of them a molten calf. And they said: These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 32:6
And rising in the morning, they offered holocausts, and peace victims, and the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.

Psalm 106:19
They made also a calf in Horeb: and they adored the graven thing.

Revelation 9:20
And the rest of the men, who were not slain by these plagues, did not do penance from the works of their hands, that they should not adore devils and idols of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood, which neither can see nor hear nor walk:

Lexicon
At
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's Greek 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

that
ἐκείναις (ekeinais)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Dative Feminine Plural
Strong's Greek 1565: That, that one there, yonder. From ekei; that one (neuter) thing); often intensified by the article prefixed.

time
ἡμέραις (hēmerais)
Noun - Dative Feminine Plural
Strong's Greek 2250: A day, the period from sunrise to sunset.

they made a calf
ἐμοσχοποίησαν (emoschopoiēsan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 3447: To make an image of a calf. From moschos and poieo; to fabricate the image of a bullock.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 2532: And, even, also, namely.

offered
ἀνήγαγον (anēgagon)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 321: From ana and ago; to lead up; by extension to bring out; specially, to sail away.

a sacrifice
θυσίαν (thysian)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 2378: Abstr. and concr: sacrifice; a sacrifice, offering. From thuo; sacrifice.

to the
τῷ (tō)
Article - Dative Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

idol,
εἰδώλῳ (eidōlō)
Noun - Dative Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 1497: An idol, false god. From eidos; an image; by implication, a heathen god, or the worship of such.

rejoicing
εὐφραίνοντο (euphrainonto)
Verb - Imperfect Indicative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 2165: From eu and phren; to put in a good frame of mind, i.e. Rejoice.

in
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's Greek 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

the
τοῖς (tois)
Article - Dative Neuter Plural
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

works
ἔργοις (ergois)
Noun - Dative Neuter Plural
Strong's Greek 2041: From a primary ergo; toil; by implication, an act.

of
τῶν (tōn)
Article - Genitive Feminine Plural
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

their
αὐτῶν (autōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

hands.
χειρῶν (cheirōn)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Plural
Strong's Greek 5495: A hand.


Additional Translations
At that time they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands.

And in those days they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol and were rejoicing in the works of their hands.

And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

And they made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.

And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

And they made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.

And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

"Moreover they made a calf at that time, and offered a sacrifice to the idol and kept rejoicing in the gods which their own hands had made.

They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.

'And they made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and were rejoicing in the works of their hands,
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