Bible: Acts 7:36-43
7:36 This man led them out, performing wonders and miraculous signs 1 in the land of Egypt, 2 at 3 the Red Sea, and in the wilderness 4 for forty years. 7:37 This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, 5 ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’ 6 7:38 This is the man who was in the congregation 7 in the wilderness 8 with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors, 9 and he 10 received living oracles 11 to give to you. 12 7:39 Our 13 ancestors 14 were unwilling to obey 15 him, but pushed him aside 16 and turned back to Egypt in their hearts, 7:40 saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go in front of us, for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt 17 – we do not know what has happened to him!’ 18 7:41 At 19 that time 20 they made an idol in the form of a calf, 21 brought 22 a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing 23 in the works of their hands. 24 7:42 But God turned away from them and gave them over 25 to worship the host 26 of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘It was not to me that you offered slain animals and sacrifices 27 forty years in the wilderness, was it, 28 house of Israel? 7:43 But you took along the tabernacle 29 of Moloch 30 and the star of the 31 god Rephan, 32 the images you made to worship, but I will deport 33 you beyond Babylon.’ 34
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