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?
