44 The tabernacle of the testimony belonged[a] to our fathers in the wilderness, just as the one who spoke to Moses directed him[b] to make it according to the design that he had seen, 45 and which, after[c] receiving it[d] in turn, our fathers brought in with Joshua when they dispossessed the[e] nations that God drove out from the presence of our fathers, until the days of David, 46 who found favor in the sight of God and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 7:44 Literally “was”
  2. Acts 7:44 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  3. Acts 7:45 Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“receiving”) which is understood as temporal
  4. Acts 7:45 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  5. Acts 7:45 Literally “in the possession of the”
  6. Acts 7:46 Some manuscripts have “for the house of Jacob”