007:033 "`Take off your shoes,' said the Lord, `for the spot on which you
are standing is holy ground.
007:034 I have seen, yes, I have seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt and have heard their groans, and I have come down to deliver them. And now I will send you to Egypt.'
007:035 "The Moses whom they rejected, asking him, `Who appointed you magistrate and judge?'—that same Moses we find God sending as a magistrate and a deliverer by the help of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
007:036 This was he who brought them out, after performing marvels
and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea, and in the Desert
for forty years.
007:037 This is the Moses who said to the descendants of Israel, "`God
will raise up a Prophet for you, from among your brethren,
just as He raised me up.'
007:038 `This is he who was among the Congregation in the Desert, together with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai and with our forefathers, who received ever-living utterances to hand on to us.
007:039 "Our forefathers, however, would not submit to him, but spurned his authority and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.
007:040 They said to Aaron, "`Make gods for us, to march in front of us;
for as for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt,
we do not know what has become of him.'
007:041 "Moreover they made a calf at that time, and offered a sacrifice
to the idol and kept rejoicing in the gods which their own
hands had made.
007:042 So God turned from them and gave them up to the worship of the Host of Heaven, as it is written in the Book of the Prophets, "'Were they victims and sacrifices which you offered Me, forty years in the Desert, O House of Israel?