Acts 6:14

6:14 For we have heard him saying that Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place and change the customs ¹  that Moses handed down to us.”

Acts 7:42

7:42 But God turned away from them and gave them over ²  to worship the host ³  of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘It was not to me that you offered slain animals and sacrifices ⁴  forty years in the wilderness, was it, ⁵  house of Israel?

¹ tn Or “practices.”

² sn The expression and gave them over suggests similarities to the judgment on the nations described by Paul in Rom 1:18-32.

³ tn Or “stars.”

⁴ tn The two terms for sacrifices “semantically reinforce one another and are here combined essentially for emphasis” (L&N 53.20).

⁵ tn The Greek construction anticipates a negative reply which is indicated in the translation by the ‘tag’ question, “was it?”