Acts 7:38-45

38This is the one who was in 1the 2congregation in the wilderness together with 3the angel who was speaking to him on Mount Sinai, and who was with our fathers; and he received 4living 5oracles to pass on to you. 39Our fathers were unwilling to be obedient to him, but 6repudiated him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt, 407saying to Aaron, ‘Make for us gods who will go before us; for this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt--we do not know what happened to him.’ 418At that time 9they made a 10calf and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and were rejoicing in 11the works of their hands. 42But God 12turned away and delivered them up to 13serve the 14host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘15It was not to Me that you offered victims and sacrifices 16forty years in the wilderness, was it, O house of Israel? 4317You also took along the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of the god 18Rompha, the images which you made to worship. I also will remove you beyond Babylon.’

44“Our fathers had 19the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as He who spoke to Moses directed him to make it 20according to the pattern which he had seen. 45And having received it in their turn, our fathers 21brought it in with 22Joshua upon dispossessing the 23nations whom God drove out before our fathers, until the time of David.