Acts 7:37-43 - Israel's Rebellion Against God
37 (This was the Moses who told the sons of Israel, 'God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brotherhood, as he raised me.') 38 This was the man who at the assembly in the desert intervened between the angel who spoke to him on mount Sinai and our fathers; he received living Words to be given to us. 39 But our fathers would not submit to him; they pushed him aside and hankered secretly after Egypt. 40 They told Aaron, 'Make gods that will march in front of us! As for this Moses who led us out of Egypt, we don't know what has happened to him!'
41 They actually made a calf in those days, offered sacrifice to this idol, and grew festive over what their own hands had manufactured. 42 So God turned from them, abandoning them to the worship of the starry Host ??as it is written in the book of the prophets, Did you offer me victims and sacrifices during the forty years in the desert, O house of Israel? 43 No, it was the tent of Moloch and the star-symbol of Rephan your god that you carried, figures that you manufactured for worship. So now I will transport you beyond Babylon!