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Stephen the martyr, in Acts chapter 7:
Acts
7:29 Then fled
Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian [Midian], where he begat two sons.
7:30 And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai
an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
7:31 When Moses saw [it], he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold [it], the voice of the Lord came unto him,
7:32 [Saying], I [AM] the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob/Israel. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.
7:33 Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.
7:34 I have seen, I have seen the affliction of My people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
7:35 This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? The same did God send [to be] a Ruler and a Deliverer
by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.
7:36 He brought them out, after that he had showed wonders and Signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
7:37 This is that
Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.
7:38 This is he, that was in the community in the wilderness
with the angel which spoke to him in the Mount Sinai, and [with] our fathers: who received the
"Oracles of Life" to give unto us:
(The "Oracles of Life" : God's Law - The Torah)
7:39 To whom our fathers
would not obey, but thrust [him] from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
7:40 Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for [as for] this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.
7:41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
7:42 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 [by the space of] forty years in the wilderness?
7:43 Yea, 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.
7:44 Our fathers had The Tabernacle of Covenant in the wilderness, as He had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.
7:45 Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Joshua into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
7:46 Who found favour before God, and desired to find a Tabernacle for the God of Jacob/Israel.
7:47 But Solomon built him an house.
7:48 Howbeit the Most High
dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
7:49 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?
7:50 Hath not My hand made all these things?
7:51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers [did], so [do] ye.
7:52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
7:53
Who have received The Law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept [it].
7:54 When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they
gnashed on him
with [their] teeth.