36He it was who led them out, after he had shown wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the desert during forty years.
37This was the Moses who said to the people of Israel — ‘God will raise up for you, from among yourselves, a prophet, as he raised up me.’
38He, too, it was who was present at the assembly in the desert, with the angel who talked to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors, and who received living truths to impart to you.
39Yet our ancestors refused him obedience; more than that, they rejected him, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,
40while they said to Aaron — ‘Make us Gods who will lead the way for us, since, as for this Moses who has brought us out of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’
41That was the time when they made the calf and offered sacrifice to their idol, and held festivities in honor of their own handiwork!
42So God turned from them and left them to the worship of the Starry Host, as is written in the book of the prophets — ‘Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me, house of Israel, all those forty years in the desert?
43You took with you the tent where Moloch is worshiped and the star of the god Rephan — the images which you had made to worship. Therefore I will exile you beyond Babylon.’
44Our ancestors had the tent where they worshiped God in the desert, constructed, just as he who spoke to Moses had directed him to make it, after the model which he had seen.
45This tent, which was handed down to them, was brought into this country by our ancestors who accompanied Joshua (at the conquest of the nations that God drove out before their advance), and remained here until the time of David.
46David found favor with God, and prayed that he might provide the God of Jacob with a place to reside.
47But it was Solomon who built a house for God.
48Yet it is not in buildings made by hands that the Most High dwells. As the prophet says —
Acts 7
Acts 7:36-48