40. saying to Aaron, ‘Make gods for us who will go before us. For this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt—we have no idea what has happened to him.’
41. “And they made a calf in those days, offered a sacrifice to the idol, and were rejoicing in the works of their hands.
42. But God turned and gave them over to serve the host of heaven, just as it is written in the book of the Prophets: ‘It was not to Me that you brought sacrifices and offerings for forty years in the wilderness, was it, O House of Israel?
43. You also took up the tent of Moloch and the star of your god Rephan, the images you made to worship. And I will deport you beyond Babylon.’
44. “Our fathers had the Tent of Witness in the wilderness—just as the One speaking to Moses had directed him to make it according to the design he had seen.
45. Our fathers received it in turn and brought it in with Joshua when they took possession of the land of the nations that God drove out before our fathers. So it remained until the days of David,
46. who found favor in God’s sight. He asked to find a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.
47. But Solomon built a house for Him.
48. However, Elyon does not dwell in man-made houses. As the prophet says,
49. ‘Heaven is My throne, and the earth is the footstool of My feet. What kind of house will you build for Me, says Adonai, or what is the place of My rest?
50. Did not My Hand make all these things?’
51. “O you stiff-necked people! You uncircumcised of heart and ears! You always resist the Ruach ha-Kodesh; just as your fathers did, you do as well.
52. Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed the ones who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. Now you have become His betrayers and murderers—
53. you who received the Torah by direction of angels and did not keep it!”
54. When they heard these things, they became enraged and began gnashing their teeth at him.
55. But Stephen, full of the Ruach ha-Kodesh, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God—and Yeshua standing at the right hand of God.
56. And he said, “Look, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”
57. But they covered their ears; and crying out with a loud voice, they rushed at him with one impulse.