rsv Acts:7:30-41
rsv@Acts:7:30 @ "Now when forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.
rsv@Acts:7:31 @ When Moses saw it he wondered at the sight; and as he drew near to look, the voice of the Lord came,
rsv@Acts:7:32 @ `I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob.' And Moses trembled and did not dare to look.
rsv@Acts:7:33 @ And the Lord said to him, `Take off the shoes from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.
rsv@Acts:7:34 @ I have surely seen the ill-treatment of my people that are in Egypt and heard their groaning, and I have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt.'
rsv@Acts:7:35 @ "This Moses whom they refused, saying, `Who made you a ruler and a judge?' God sent as both ruler and deliverer by the hand of the angel that appeared to him in the bush.
rsv@Acts:7:36 @ He led them out, having performed wonders and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.
rsv@Acts:7:37 @ This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, `God will raise up for you a prophet from your brethren as he raised me up.'
rsv@Acts:7:38 @ This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers; and he received living oracles to give to us.
rsv@Acts:7:39 @ Our fathers refused to obey him, but thrust him aside, and in their hearts they turned to Egypt,
rsv@Acts:7:40 @ saying to Aaron, `Make for us gods to go before us; as for this Moses who led us out from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.'
rsv@Acts:7:41 @ And they made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to the idol and rejoiced in the works of their hands.