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He brought them out, showing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.
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This is that Moses, who said unto the sons of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren like unto me; him shall ye hear.
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This is he, who was in the
congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him in the Mount Sinai and
with our fathers, who received the oracles of life to give unto us;
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to whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust
him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
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saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us; for
as for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.
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And then they made a calf and offered sacrifice unto the idol and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
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Then God withdrew and gave them up to worship the host of the heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices
by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
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On the contrary, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them; and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
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Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen,
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which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus {Joshua in Heb.} into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers unto the days of David,
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who found grace before God and asked to provide a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.