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This is that Moses, who said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall God raise up unto you from among your brethren, like unto me.
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This is he that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel that spake to him in the Mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received living oracles to give unto us:
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to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but thrust him from them, and turned back in their hearts unto Egypt,
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saying unto Aaron, Make us gods that shall go before us: for as for this Moses, who led us forth out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.
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And they made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
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But God turned, and gave them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, Did ye offer unto me slain beasts and sacrifices Forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
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And ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, And the star of the god Rephan, The 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, even as he appointed who spake unto Moses, that he should make it according to the figure that he had seen.
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Which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered on the possession of the nations, that God thrust out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
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who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.
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But Solomon built him a house.