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Acts 7:44-54

44“Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, just as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern he had seen.

45Our ancestors in turn received it and with Joshua brought it in when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before them, until the days of David.

46He found favor in God’s sight and asked that he might provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.

47It was Solomon, rather, who built him a house,

48but the Most High does not dwell in sanctuaries made with hands, as the prophet says:

49Heaven is my throne, and the earth my footstool. What sort of house will you build for me? says the Lord, or what will be my resting place?

50Did not my hand make all these things?

51“You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit. As your ancestors did, you do also.

52Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become.

53You received the law under the direction of angels and yet have not kept it.”

54When they heard these things, they were enraged and gnashed their teeth at him.

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