Acts 7:30-42
English Standard Version
Chapter 7
30"Now when forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush. 31When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and as he drew near to look, there came the voice of the Lord: 32‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob.’ And Moses trembled and did not dare to look. 33Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take off the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground. 34I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt.’
35"This Moses, whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ — this man God sent as both ruler and redeemer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
36This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.
37This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers.’
38This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. He received living oracles to give to us.
39Our fathers refused to obey him, but thrust him aside, and in their hearts they turned to Egypt,
40saying to Aaron, ‘Make for us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who led us out from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’
41And they made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to the idol and were rejoicing in the works of their hands.
42But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: "‘Did you bring to me slain beasts and sacrifices, during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
