33. And the Lord said to him, ‘Untie the sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.
34. I have certainly seen the mistreatment 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 had repudiated, saying, ‘Who appointed you a ruler and a judge?’—this man God sent as both ruler and redeemer with the help of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
36. This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.
37. “This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’
38. This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and who with our fathers received living oracles to give to us,
39. to whom our fathers were not willing to become obedient, but rejected him and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,
40. saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go on before us! For this Moses, who led us out from the land of Egypt—we do not know what has happened to him!’
41. And they manufactured a calf in those days, and offered up a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing in the works of their hands.