Acts 7:30-43

New King James Version

^30 (A)“And when forty years had passed, an Angel ^[a]of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush, in the wilderness of Mount Sinai. ³¹ When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight; and as he drew near to observe, the voice of the Lord came to him, ³² saying, ^(B)‘I am the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ And Moses trembled and dared not look. ^33 (C)‘Then the Lord said to him, “Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground. ³⁴ I have surely ^(D)seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt; I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will ^(E)send you to Egypt.” ’

³⁵ “This Moses whom they rejected, saying, ^(F)‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ is the one God sent to be a ruler and a deliverer ^(G)by the hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the bush. ^36 (H)He brought them out, after he had ^(I)shown wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, ^(J)and in the Red Sea, ^(K)and in the wilderness forty years.

Israel Rebels Against God

³⁷ “This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel, ^(L)‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. ^(M)Him^[b] you shall hear.’

^38 (N)“This is he who was in the ^[c]congregation in the wilderness with ^(O)the Angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, ^(P)the one who received the living ^(Q)oracles^[d] to give to us, ³⁹ whom our fathers ^(R)would not obey, but rejected. And in their hearts they turned back to Egypt, ^40 (S)saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods to go before us; as for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’ ^41 (T)And they made a calf in those days, offered sacrifices to the idol, and ^(U)rejoiced in the works of their own hands. ⁴² Then ^(V)God turned and gave them up to worship ^(W)the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: