Acts 7:30-42

³⁰At the end of forty years, an angel came to him in the waste land of Sinai, in the flame of a burning thorn-tree.

³¹And Moses, seeing it, was full of wonder, and when he came up to have a nearer view of it, the voice of the Lord came to him, saying,

³²I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob. And Moses, shaking with fear, kept his eyes from looking at it.

³³And the Lord said, Take off the shoes from your feet, for the place where you are is holy.

³⁴Truly, I have seen the sorrows of my people in Egypt, and their cries have come to my ears, and I have come down to make them free: and now, come, I will send you to Egypt.

³⁵This Moses, whom they would not have, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? him God sent to be a ruler and a saviour, by the hand of the angel whom he saw in the thorn-tree.

³⁶This man took them out, having done wonders and signs in Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the waste land, for forty years.

³⁷This is the same Moses, who said to the children of Israel, God will give you a prophet from among your brothers, like me.

³⁸This is the man who was in the church in the waste land with the angel who was talking to him in Sinai, and with our fathers; and to him were given the living words of God, so that he might give them to you.

³⁹By whom our fathers would not be controlled; but they put him on one side, turning back in their hearts to Egypt,

⁴⁰And saying to Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: as for this Moses, who took us out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has become of him.

⁴¹And they made the image of a young ox in those days, and made an offering to it, and had joy in the work of their hands.

⁴²But God was turned from them and let them give worship to the stars of heaven, as it says in the book of the prophets, Did you make offerings to me of sheep and oxen for forty years in the waste land, O house of Israel?