and became a
sojourner in the land of Midian, where he begot two sons. (30)And when
forty years were completed, there appeared to him in the wilderness of
the mount Sinai an angel in a flame of fire, in a bush. (31)And Moses,
seeing it, wondered at the sight; and as he drew near to behold it,
the voice of the Lord came to him, saving: (32)I am the God of thy
fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob. And Moses trembled, and durst not behold. (33)And the Lord said
to him: Loose the sandals from thy feet; for the place where thou
standest is holy ground. (34)Truly, I saw the affliction of my people
in Egypt, and I heard their groaning, and came down to deliver them.
And now come, I will send thee into Egypt. (35)This Moses whom they
denied, saying: Who made thee a ruler and a judge? him did God send as
a ruler and a redeemer by the hand[7:35] of the angel who appeared to
him in the bush. (36)He brought them out, working wonders and signs in
the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty
years.

(37)This is the Moses who said to the children of Israel: A Prophet
will God raise up to you of your brethren, like unto. (38)This is he
who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke
to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who received the
living oracles to give to us; (39)to whom our fathers would not be
obedient, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back
again into Egypt, (40)saying to Aaron: Make us gods who shall go
before us; for as for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of
Egypt, we know not what is become of him.

(41)And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to the
idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. (42)And God turned
away, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written
in the book of the prophets:

Did ye offer to me slain beasts and sacrifices,
Forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
(43)And ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch,
And the star of the god Remphan,
The figures which ye made to worship them;
And I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

(44)Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness,
as he who spoke to Moses commanded, that he should make it according
to the pattern that he had seen; (45)which also our fathers received,
and brought in with Joshua into the possession of the heathen, whom
God drov