Acts 7

44 The tabernacle of the testimony belonged*Literally "was" to our fathers in the wilderness, just as the one who spoke to Moses directed him**Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation to make it according to the design that he had seen, 45 and which, after**Here "after" is supplied as a component of the participle ("receiving") which is understood as temporal receiving it**Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation in turn, our fathers brought in with Joshua when they dispossessed the*Literally "in the possession of the" nations that God drove out from the presence of our fathers, until the days of David, 46 who found favor in the sight of God and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.*Some manuscripts have "for the house of Jacob"47 But Solomon built a house for him. 48 But the Most High does not live in houses*Or "temples made by human hands"; either word ("houses" or "temples") is understood here made by human hands, just as the prophet says,

49 ‘Heaven is my throne

and earth is the footstool for my feet.

What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord,

or what is the place of my rest?

50 Did not my hand make all these things?’*A quotation from Isa 66:1–2