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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.
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But Solomon built him a house.
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Howbeit the most High does not dwell 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 me? saith the Lord, or what
is the place of my rest?
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Has not my hand made all these things?