35. This Moses whom they had repudiated, saying, ‘Who appointed you a ruler and a judge?’—this man God sent as both ruler and redeemer with the help of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
36. This 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.
37. “This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’
38. This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and who with our fathers received living oracles to give to us,
39. to whom our fathers were not willing to become obedient, but rejected him and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,
40. saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go on before us! For this Moses, who led us out from the land of Egypt—we do not know what has happened to him!’
41. And they manufactured a calf in those days, and offered up a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing in the works of their hands.
42. But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, just as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘You did not bring offerings and sacrifices to me for forty years in the wilderness, did you, house of Israel?
43. And you took along the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of the god Rephan, the images that you made, to worship them, and I will deport you beyond Babylon!’
44. The tabernacle of the testimony belonged to our fathers in the wilderness, just as the one who spoke to Moses directed him to make it according to the design that he had seen,
45. and which, after receiving it in turn, our fathers brought in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out from the presence of our fathers, until the days of David,
46. who found favor in the sight of God and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.
47. But Solomon built a house for him.
48. But the Most High does not live in houses made by human hands, just as the prophet says,