7:30 “After 28 forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the desert 29 of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush. 30 7:31 When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and when he approached to investigate, there came the voice of the Lord, 7:32 ‘I am the God of your forefathers, 31 the God of Abraham, Isaac, 32 and Jacob.’ 33 Moses began to tremble and did not dare to look more closely. 34 7:33 But the Lord said to him, ‘Take the sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground. 35 7:34 I have certainly seen the suffering 36 of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to rescue them. 37 Now 38 come, I will send you to Egypt.’ 39 7:35 This same 40 Moses they had rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge?’ 41 God sent as both ruler and deliverer 42 through the hand of the angel 43 who appeared to him in the bush. 7:36 This man led them out, performing wonders and miraculous signs 44 in the land of Egypt, 45 at 46 the Red Sea, and in the wilderness 47 for forty years. 7:37 This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, 48 ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’ 49 7:38 This is the man who was in the congregation 50 in the wilderness 51 with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors, 52 and he 53 received living oracles 54 to give to you. 55 7:39 Our 56 ancestors 57 were unwilling to obey 58 him, but pushed him aside 59 and turned back to Egypt in their hearts, 7:40 saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go in front of us, for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt 60 – we do not know what has happened to him!’ 61 7:41 At 62 that time 63 they made an idol in the form of a calf, 64 brought 65 a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing 66 in the works of their hands. 67 7:42 But God turned away from them and gave them over 68 to worship the host 69 of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘It was not to me that you offered slain animals and sacrifices 70 forty years in the wilderness, was it, 71 house of Israel? 7:43 But you took along the tabernacle 72 of Moloch 73 and the star of the 74 god Rephan, 75 the images you made to worship, but I will deport 76 you beyond Babylon.’ 77 7:44 Our ancestors 78 had the tabernacle 79 of testimony in the wilderness, 80 just as God 81 who spoke to Moses ordered him 82 to make it according to the design he had seen.