Acts 7:38-53

³⁸ This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness together with the angel who was speaking to him on Mount Sinai, and who was with our fathers; and he received living oracles to pass on to you.

³⁹ Our fathers were unwilling to be obedient to him, but repudiated him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,

⁴⁰ saying to Aaron, ‘Make for us gods who will go before us; for this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt—we do not know what happened to him.’

⁴¹ At that time they made a calf and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and were rejoicing in the works of their hands.

⁴² But God turned away and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘It was not to Me that you offered victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, O house of Israel?

⁴³ You also took along the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of the god Rompha, the images which you made to worship. I also will remove you beyond Babylon.’

⁴⁴ “Our fathers had the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as He who spoke to Moses directed him to make it according to the pattern which he had seen.

⁴⁵ And having received it in their turn, our fathers brought it in with Joshua upon dispossessing the nations whom God drove out before our fathers, until the time of David.

⁴⁶ David found favor in God’s sight, and asked that he might find a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.

⁴⁷ But it was Solomon who built a house for Him.

⁴⁸ However, the Most High does not dwell in housesmade by human hands; as the prophet says:

⁵¹ “You men who are stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears are always resisting the Holy Spirit; you are doing just as your fathers did.

⁵² Which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed those who had previously announced the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become;

⁵³ you who received the law as ordained by angels, and yet did not keep it.”