40. They told Aaron:Make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what’s happened to him.
41. They even made a calf in those days, offered sacrifice to the idol, and were celebrating what their hands had made.
42. Then God turned away and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:House of Israel, did you bring Me offerings and sacrifices40 years in the wilderness?
43. No, you took up the tent of Moloch and the star of your god Rephan, the images that you made to worship.So I will deport you beyond Babylon!
44. “Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, just as He who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern he had seen.
45. Our ancestors in turn received it and with Joshua brought it in when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our fathers, until the days of David.
46. He found favor in God’s sight and asked that he might provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.
47. But it was Solomon who built Him a house.
48. However, the Most High does not dwell in sanctuaries made with hands, as the prophet says:
49. Heaven is My throne,and earth My footstool.What sort of house will you build for Me?says the Lord,or what is My resting place?
50. Did not My hand make all these things?
51. “You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit; as your ancestors did, so do you.
52. Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They even killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become.
53. You received the law under the direction of angels and yet have not kept it.”
54. When they heard these things, they were enraged in their hearts and gnashed their teeth at him.