Acts 7:30-53

30After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush.

31When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight. As he was approaching to look at it, the voice of the Lord came:

32I am the God of your ancestors — the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob. Moses began to tremble and did not dare to look.

33“The Lord said to him: Take off the sandals from your feet, because the place where you are standing is holy ground.

34I have certainly seen the oppression of my people in Egypt; I have heard their groaning and have come down to set them free. And now, come, I will send you to Egypt.

35“This Moses, whom they rejected when they said, Who appointed you a ruler and a judge?  — this one God sent as a ruler and a deliverer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

36This man led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

37“This is the Moses who said to the Israelites: God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.

38He is the one who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors. He received living oracles to give to us.

39Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him. Instead, they pushed him aside, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.

40They told Aaron: Make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what’s happened to him.

41They even made a calf in those days, offered sacrifice to the idol, and were celebrating what their hands had made.

42God turned away and gave them up to worship the stars of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: House of Israel, did you bring me offerings and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness?

43You took up the tent of Moloch and the star of your god Rephan, the images that you made to worship. So I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.

44“Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, just as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern he had seen.

45Our ancestors in turn received it and with Joshua brought it in when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before them, until the days of David.

46He found favor in God’s sight and asked that he might provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.

47It was Solomon, rather, who built him a house,

48but the Most High does not dwell in sanctuaries made with hands, as the prophet says:

49Heaven is my throne, and the earth my footstool. What sort of house will you build for me? says the Lord, or what will be my resting place?

50Did not my hand make all these things?

51“You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit. As your ancestors did, you do also.

52Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become.

53You received the law under the direction of angels and yet have not kept it.”