ISRAEL’S REBELLION AGAINST GOD

37 “This is the Moses who said to the Israelites: GodD will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.E,f 38 He is the one who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors.g He received living oracles to give to us.h 39 Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him. Instead, they pushed him aside, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.i 40 They told Aaron: Make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what’s happened to him.F,j 41 They even made a calf in those days, offered sacrifice to the idol, and were celebrating what their hands had made.k 42 God turned awayl and gave them up to worshipm the stars of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:

House of Israel, did you bring me offerings and sacrifices

for forty years in the wilderness?

43 You took up the tent of Moloch

and the star of your god Rephan,

the images that you made to worship.

So I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.G,n