begat two sons.
30
And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of
mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
31
When Moses saw
it,
he wondered
at the sight: and as he drew near to behold
it,
the voice of the Lord came unto him,
32
Saying,
I
am
the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then
Moses trembled, and durst not behold.
33
Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy
feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.
34
I have seen, I have seen the affliction of
my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them.
And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
35
This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made
thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send
to be
a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the
angel which appeared to him in the bush.
36
He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders
and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
37
This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God
raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.
38
This is he, that was in the
church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and
with
our fathers:
who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
39
To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust
him
from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
40
Saying unto Aaron, Make us
gods to go before us: for
as for
this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not
what is become of him.
41
And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol,
and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
42
Then God turned, and gave them up to worship
the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered
to me slain beasts and sacrifices
by the space of
forty years in the wilderness?
43
Yea, ye took up
the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship
them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
44
Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in
the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the
fashion that he had seen.
45
Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the
possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of
David;
46
Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
47
But Solomon built him an house.
48
Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with
hands; as saith the prophet,
49
Heaven
is
my throne, and earth
is
my footstool: what house will ye
build me? saith the Lord: or what
is
the place of my rest?
50
Hath not my hand made all these things?
51
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as
your fathers
did,
so
do
ye.
52
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they
have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now
the betrayers and murderers:
53
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have
not kept
it.
54
When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with
their
teeth.
55
But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory
of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
56
And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened,
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