44 “Our fathers had (A)the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as He who spoke to Moses directed him to make it (B)according to the pattern which he had seen. 45 And having received it in their turn, our fathers (C)brought it in with [a]Joshua upon dispossessing the [b]nations whom God drove out before our fathers, until the time of David. 46 (D)David found favor in God’s sight, and (E)asked that he might find a dwelling place for the [c]God of Jacob.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 7:45 Gr Jesus
  2. Acts 7:45 Or Gentiles
  3. Acts 7:46 The earliest mss read house instead of God; the Septuagint reads God