37 “This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’s 38 This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and who with our fathers received living oracles to give to us, 39 to whom our fathers were not willing to become obedient, but rejected him* and turned back in their hearts to Egypt, 40 saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go on before us! For this Moses, who led us out from the land of Egypt—we do not know what has happened to him!’t 41 And they manufactured a calf in those days, and offered up a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing* in the works of their hands. 42 But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, just as it is written in the book of the prophets:

‘You did not bring offerings and sacrifices to me

for forty years in the wilderness, did you,* house of Israel?

43 And you took along the tabernacleu of Moloch

and the star of the godv Rephan,

the images that you made, to worship them,

and I will deport you beyond Babylon!’w