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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 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 sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
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Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of 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 [during] forty years in the wilderness?
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Yes, 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 testimony in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking to 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 into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, to the days of David;
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Who found favor 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 temples made with hands, as saith the prophet,
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Heaven [is] my throne, and earth [is] my footstool: What house will ye build for me? saith the Lord: or what [is] the place of my rest?