Acts 7:31-45

New American Standard Bible

³¹ When Moses saw it, he was astonished at the sight; and as he approached to look more closely, the voice of the Lord came: ³² ‘^(A)I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses shook with fear and did not dare to look closely. ^33 (B)But the Lord said to him, ‘^[a](C)Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground. ^34 (D)I have certainly seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to rescue them; and ^(E)now come, I will send you to Egypt.’

³⁵ “This Moses whom they ^(F)disowned, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ is the one whom God ^[b]sent to be both a ruler and a deliverer with the ^[c]help of the angel who appeared to him in the thorn bush. ^36 (G)This man led them out, performing ^(H)wonders and ^[d]signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea, and in the ^(I)wilderness for forty years. ³⁷ This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, ‘^(J)God will raise up for you a prophet ^[e]like me from your countrymen.’ ³⁸ This is the one who was in ^(K)the ^[f]assembly in the wilderness together with ^(L)the angel who spoke to him at length on Mount Sinai, and who was with our fathers; and he received ^(M)living ^(N)words to pass on to you. ³⁹ Our fathers were unwilling to be obedient to him; on the contrary they ^(O)rejected him and turned back to Egypt in their hearts, ^40 (P)saying to Aaron, ‘Make us ^[g]a god 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.’ ^41 [h]At that time ^(Q)they made a ^[i]calf and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and were rejoicing in ^(R)the works of their hands. ⁴² But God ^(S)turned away and gave them over to ^[j]serve the heavenly ^[k]lights; as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘^(T)You did not offer Me victims and sacrifices ^(U)for forty years in the wilderness, did you, house of Israel? ^43 (V)You also took along the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of your god ^[l]Rompha, the images which you made to worship. I also will deport you beyond Babylon.’

⁴⁴ “Our fathers had ^(W)the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as He who spoke to Moses directed him to make it ^(X)according to the pattern which he had seen. ⁴⁵ Our fathers in turn received it, and they also ^(Y)brought it in with Joshua upon dispossessing the ^[m]nations that God drove out from our fathers, until the time of David.