Acts 7:42-44

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

So God Turned Away From Them And Handed Them Over To Idolatry

⁴² “And God turned-away, and handed them over to worship the host of heaven, just as it has been written in the book of the prophets [in Amos 5:25-27]: ‘House of Israel, you did not offer victims^[a] and sacrifices to Me for forty years in the wilderness, did you? ⁴³ Indeed you took-up the tabernacle of Moloch^[b] and the star of your god Rephan^[c]— the images which you made to give-worship to them. Indeed I will remove^[d] you beyond Babylon!’

The Fathers Had The Tabernacle And The Temple. But God Does Not Dwell In Either

⁴⁴ “The tabernacle of testimony was with our fathers in the wilderness, just as the One speaking to Moses directed him to make it according to the pattern which he had seen;