Acts 7:53
Good News Translation
You are the ones who received God's law, that was handed down by angels--yet you have not obeyed it!"

New Revised Standard Version
You are the ones that received the law as ordained by angels, and yet you have not kept it.”

Contemporary English Version
Angels gave you God's Law, but you still don't obey it.

New American Bible
You received the law as transmitted by angels, but you did not observe it.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels and have not kept it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who have received the law by the disposition of angels and have not kept it.

have received.

Exodus 19:1-20:26 In the third month of the departure of Israel out of the land of Egypt, on this day they came into the wilderness of Sinai: . . .

Deuteronomy 33:2 And he said: The Lord came from Sinai, and from Seir he rose up to us: he hath appeared from mount Pharan, and with him thousands of saints. In his right hand a fiery law.

Psalm 68:17 The chariot of God is attended by ten thousands; thousands of them that rejoice: the Lord is among them in Sina, in the holy place.

Galatians 3:19 Why then was the law? It was set because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom he made the promise, being ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

Hebrews 2:2 For if the word spoken by angels became steadfast and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward:

and have.

Ezekiel 20:18-21 And I said to their children in the wilderness: Walk not in the statutes of your fathers, and observe not their judgments, nor be ye defiled with their idols: . . .

John 7:19 Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law?

Romans 2:23-25 Thou, that makest thy boast of the law, by transgression of the law dishonourest God. . . .

Galatians 6:13 For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law: but they will have you to be circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

Context
Stephen's Address to the Sanhedrin
52Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them who foretold of the coming of the Just One: of whom you have been now the betrayers and murderers. 53Who have received the law by the disposition of angels and have not kept it. 54Now hearing these things, they were cut to the heart: and they gnashed with their teeth at him.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:2
And he said: The Lord came from Sinai, and from Seir he rose up to us: he hath appeared from mount Pharan, and with him thousands of saints. In his right hand a fiery law.

Acts 7:38
This is he that was in the church in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sina and with our fathers. Who received the words of life to give unto us.

Galatians 3:19
Why then was the law? It was set because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom he made the promise, being ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

Hebrews 2:2
For if the word spoken by angels became steadfast and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward:

Acts 7:52
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