Now come, I will send you into Egypt.'{Exodus 3:5,7-8,10}
007:035 "This Moses, whom they refused, saying, 'Who made you a ruler
and a judge?'--God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer
by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
007:036 This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt,
in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.
007:037 This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, 'The Lord
our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers,
like me.{TR adds "You shall listen to him."}'{Deuteronomy 18:15}
007:038 This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel
that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers,
who received living oracles to give to us,
007:039 to whom our fathers wouldn't be obedient, but rejected him,
and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,
007:040 saying to Aaron, 'Make us gods that will go before us,
for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt,
we don't know what has become of him.'{Exodus 32:1}
007:041 They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol,
and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
007:042 But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky,
as it is written in the book of the prophets, 'Did you offer
to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness,
O house of Israel?
007:043 You took up the tent of Moloch, the star of your god Rephan,
the figures which you made to worship. I will carry you
away{Amos 5:25-27} beyond Babylon.'
007:044 "Our fathers had the tent 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;
007:045 which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua
when they entered into the possession of the nations, whom God
drove out before the face of our fathers, to the days of David,
007:046 who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find
a habitation for the God of Jacob.
007:047 But Solomon built him a house.
007:048 However, the Most High doesn't dwell in temples made with hands,
as the prophet says,
007:049 'heaven is my throne, and the earth a footstool for my feet.
What kind of house will you build me?' says the Lord;
'or what is the place of my rest?
007:050 Didn't my hand make all these things?'{Isaiah 66:1-2}
007:051 "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears,
you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did,
so you do.
007:052 Which of the prophets didn't your fathers persecute?
They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One,
of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.
007:053 You received the law as it was ordained by angels,
and didn't keep it!"
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