37. This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, ‘The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from amongst your brothers, like me.’
38. This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,
39. to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,
40. saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.’
41. They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
42. But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets,‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrificesforty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
43. You took up the tabernacle of Moloch,the star of your god Rephan,the figures which you made to worship.I will carry you away beyond Babylon.’
44. “Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen;
45. which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered into the possession of the nations, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, to the days of David,