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This Moses, whom they would not have, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? him God sent to be a ruler and a saviour, by the hand of the angel whom he saw in the thorn-tree.

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This man took them out, having done wonders and signs in Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the waste land, for forty years.

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This is the same Moses, who said to the children of Israel, God will give you a prophet from among your brothers, like me.

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This is the man who was in the church in the waste land with the angel who was talking to him in Sinai, and with our fathers and to him were given the living words of God, so that he might give them to you.

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By whom our fathers would not be controlled but they put him on one side, turning back in their hearts to Egypt,

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And saying to Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: as for this Moses, who took us out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has become of him.

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And they made the image of a young ox in those days, and made an offering to it, and had joy in the work of their hands.

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But God was turned from them and let them give worship to the stars of heaven, as it says in the book of the prophets, Did you make offerings to me of sheep and oxen for forty years in the waste land, O house of Israel?

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And you took up the tent of Moloch and the star of the god Rephan, images which you made to give worship to them: and I will take you away, farther than Babylon.

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Our fathers had the Tent of witness in the waste land, as God gave orders to Moses to make it after the design which he had seen.

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Which our fathers, in their turn, took with them when, with Joshua, they came into the heritage of the nations whom God was driving out before the face of our fathers, till the time of David,

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Who was pleasing to God and he had a desire to make a holy tent for the God of Jacob.

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But Solomon was the builder of his house.

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But still, the Most High has not his resting-place in houses made with hands, as the prophet says,

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Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is a resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, says the Lord, or what is my place of rest?

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Did not my hand make all these things?

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You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me you are ever working against the Holy Spirit as your fathers did, so do you.

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Which of the prophets was not cruelly attacked by your fathers? and they put to death those who gave them the news of the coming of the Upright One whom you have now given up and put to death

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You, to whom the law was given as it was ordered by angels, and who have not kept it.