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This is he that was in the church in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sina and with our fathers. Who received the words of life to give unto us.
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Whom our fathers would not obey: but thrust him away and in their hearts turned back into Egypt,
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Saying to 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 they made a calf in those days and offered sacrifices to the idol and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
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And God turned and gave them up to serve the host of heaven, as it is written in the books of the prophets: Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me for forty years, in the desert, O house of Israel?
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And you took unto you the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of your god Rempham, figures which you made to adore them. And I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
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The tabernacle of the testimony was with our fathers in the desert, as God ordained for them, speaking to Moses, that he should make it according to the form which he had seen.
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Which also our fathers receiving, brought in with Jesus, 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 desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
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But Solomon built him a house,
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Yet the most High dwelleth not in houses made by hands, as the prophet saith: