So God turned away and handed them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘House of Israel, was it to me that you brought victims and sacrifices for forty years in the desert?
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40saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods to go ahead of us. As for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has become of him.’ 41In those days they made a calf, offered a sacrifice to the idol, and celebrated the work of their own hands. 42So God turned away and handed them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘House of Israel, was it to me that you brought victims and sacrifices for forty years in the desert? 43You took up the tent of Moloch and the star of your god Rephan, the images you made in order to worship them. So I will deport you beyond Babylon.’ 44Our ancestors had the tent of testimony in the desert, made as God directed when he spoke to Moses, following the pattern he had seen.
