Acts 7:44

“Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen;

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WEBBE

“Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen;

BSB

Our fathers had the tabernacle of the Testimony with them in the wilderness. It was constructed exactly as God had directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.

KJV

Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.

ASV

Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he appointed who spake unto Moses, that he should make it according to the figure that he had seen.

BBE

Our fathers had the Tent of witness in the waste land, as God gave orders to Moses to make it after the design which he had seen.

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Ἡ Hē The G3588 σκηνὴ skēnē tabernacle G4633 τοῦ tou of the G3588 μαρτυρίου marturiou testimony G3142 ἦν ēn was G1510 ἐν en among G1722 τοῖς tois the G3588 πατράσιν patrasin fathers G3962 ἡμῶν hēmōn of us G3165 ἐν en in G1722 τῇ tēa the G3588 ἐρήμῳ erēmō wilderness G2048 καθὼς kathōs even as G2531 διετάξατο dietaxato had commanded G1299 ὁ ho the [One] G3588 λαλῶν lalōn speaking G2980 τῷ tō (the) G3588 Μωϋσῇ Mōusēa to Moses G3475 ποιῆσαι poiēsai to make G4160 αὐτὴν autēn it G846 κατὰ kata according to G2596 τὸν ton the G3588 τύπον tupon pattern G5179 ὃν hon that G3739 ἑωράκει he'ōrakei he had seen G3708

The early church

"Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion he had seen." "But a Tabernacle," say you, "there was (the Tabernacle) 'of Witness.'" (Yes,) this is why it was: that they should have God for Witness: this was all. "According to the fashion," it says, "that was shown thee on the mount:" so that on the mount was the Original. And this Tabernacle, moreover, "in the wilderness," was carried about, and not locally fixed. And he calls it, "Tabernacle of witness:" i.e. (for witness) of the miracles, of the statutes. This is the reason why both it and those (the fathers) had no Temple.
John Chrysostom · d. 407Homilies on Acts
Seest thou, how the holy place is there wherever God may be? For to this end also he says, "in the wilderness," to compare place with place. Then the benefit (conferred upon them): And our fathers that came after brought it in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David.
John Chrysostom · d. 407Homilies on Acts

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 42–50

Stephen upbraids the Jews with the idolatry of their fathers, to which God gave them up as a punishment for their early forsaking him. It was no dishonour, but an honour to God, that the tabernacle gave way to the temple; so it is now, that the earthly temple gives way to the spiritual one; and so it will be when, at last, the spiritual shall give way to the eternal one. The whole world is God's temple, in which he is every where present, and fills it with his glory; what occasion has he then for a temple to manifest himself in? And these things show his eternal power and Godhead. But as heaven is his throne, and the earth his footstool, so none of our services can profit Him who made all things. Next to the human nature of Christ, the broken and spiritual heart is his most valued temple.

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Tabernacle

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.