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The Tabernacle of the Testimony

Acts 7:53

In 9 translations

BSB
you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.”
KJV
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
WEB
You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”
ASV
ye who received the law as it was ordained by angels, and kept it not.
LSV
who received the Law by arrangement of messengers, and did not keep [it].”
YLT
who received the law by arrangement of messengers, and did not keep [it].'
DBY
who have received the law as ordained by [the] ministry of angels, and have not kept [it].
DRC
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
GNV
Which haue receiued the Lawe by the ordinance of Angels, and haue not kept it.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
οἵτινες ἐλάβετε τὸν νόμον εἰς διαταγὰς ἀγγέλων, καὶ οὐκ ἐφυλάξατε.
RP2018
οἵτινες ἐλάβετε τὸν νόμον εἰς διαταγὰς ἀγγέλων, καὶ οὐκ ἐφυλάξατε.
TR-Boyd
οἵτινες ἐλάβετε τὸν νόμον εἰς διαταγὰς ἀγγέλων, καὶ οὐκ ἐφυλάξατε.
SCR1894
οιτινες ελαβετε τον νομον εις διαταγας αγγελων και ουκ εφυλαξατε

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  • Hebrews 2:2For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every transgression and disobedience received its just punishment,
  • Galatians 3:19Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator.
  • Acts 7:38He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.
  • John 7:19Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?”
  • Deuteronomy 33:2He said: “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned upon us from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and came with myriads of holy ones, with flaming fire at His right hand.
  • Galatians 6:13For the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.
  • Romans 2:23–25You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law? As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.” Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the…
  • Ezekiel 20:18–21In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols. I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes, keep My ordinances,…
  • Psalms 68:17The chariots of God are tens of thousands— thousands of thousands are they; the Lord is in His sanctuary as He was at Sinai.
  • Exodus 19:1–20In the third month, on the same day of the month that the Israelites had left the land of Egypt, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai. After they had set out from Rephidim, they entered the Wilderness of Sinai, and…

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