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By whom our fathers would not be controlled; but they put him on one side, turning back in their hearts to Egypt,
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And 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.
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And 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.
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But 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?
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And 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.
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Our 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.
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Which our fathers, in their turn, took with them when, with Joshua, they came into the heritage of the nations whom God was driving out before the face of our fathers, till the time of David,
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Who was pleasing to God; and he had a desire to make a holy tent for the God of Jacob.
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But Solomon was the builder of his house.
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But still, the Most High has not his resting-place in houses made with hands, as the prophet says,
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Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is a resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, says the Lord, or what is my place of rest?