Acts 7:30-53

30“When 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. But when he came up to look, there came the voice of Adonai:

32‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.’ “Moses trembled in fear and did not dare to look.

33But Adonai said to him, ‘Take the sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.

34I have surely seen the oppression of my people in Egypt and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to deliver them. Now come—let Me send you to Egypt.’

35“This Moses—whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who appointed you as ruler and judge?’—is the one whom God sent as both ruler and redeemer, by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

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

37This is the Moses who said to Bnei-Yisrael, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’

38“This is the one who was in the community in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. He received living words to pass on to us.

39Our fathers did not want to be obedient to him, but shoved him aside. And in their hearts they turned back to Egypt,

40saying to Aaron, ‘Make gods for us who will go before us. For this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt—we have no idea what has happened to him.’

41“And they made a calf in those days, offered a sacrifice to the idol, and were rejoicing in the works of their hands.

42But God turned and gave them over to serve the host of heaven, just as it is written in the book of the Prophets: ‘It was not to Me that you brought sacrifices and offerings for forty years in the wilderness, was it, O House of Israel?

43You also took up the tent of Moloch and the star of your god Rephan, the images you made to worship. And I will deport you beyond Babylon.’

44“Our fathers had the Tent of Witness in the wilderness—just as the One speaking to Moses had directed him to make it according to the design he had seen.

45Our fathers received it in turn and brought it in with Joshua when they took possession of the land of the nations that God drove out before our fathers. So it remained until the days of David,

46who found favor in God’s sight. He asked to find a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.

47But Solomon built a house for Him.

48However, Elyon does not dwell in man-made houses. As the prophet says,

49‘Heaven is My throne, and the earth is the footstool of My feet. What kind of house will you build for Me, says Adonai, or what is the place of My rest?

50Did not My Hand make all these things?’

51“O you stiff-necked people! You uncircumcised of heart and ears! You always resist the Ruach ha-Kodesh; just as your fathers did, you do as well.

52Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed the ones who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. Now you have become His betrayers and murderers—

53you who received the Torah by direction of angels and did not keep it!”