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?
43And you took up the tent of Moloch and the star of the god Rephan, images which you made to give worship to them: and I will take you away, farther than Babylon.
44Our fathers had the Tent of witness in the waste land, as God gave orders to Moses to make it after the design which he had seen.
