33. But the Lord said to him, ‘Take the sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.
34. I have certainly seen the suffering of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to rescue them. Now come, I will send you to Egypt.’
35. This same Moses they had rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge?’ God sent as both ruler and deliverer through the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
36. This man led them out, performing wonders and miraculous signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.
37. This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’
38. This is the man who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors, and he received living oracles to give to you.
39. Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him, but pushed him aside and turned back to Egypt in their hearts,
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 – we do not know what has happened to him!’