Deuteronomy 1:1-8 and Acts 7:35-43 (New Living Test

DEUTERONOMY 1:1-8
INTRODUCTION TO MOSES' FIRST ADDRESS

1  These are the words that Moses spoke to all the people of Israel while they were in the wilderness east of the Jordan River. They were camped in the Jordan Valley  near Suph, between Paran on one side and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di-zahab on the other.

2  Normally it takes only eleven days to travel from Mount Sinai to Kadesh-barnea, going by way of Mount Seir. 

3  But forty years after the Israelites left Egypt, on the first day of the eleventh month Moses addressed the people of Israel, telling them everything the Lord had commanded him to say. 

4  This took place after he had defeated King Sihon of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon, and at Edrei had defeated King Og of Bashan, who ruled in Ashtaroth.

5  While the Israelites were in the land of Moab east of the Jordan River, Moses carefully explained the Lord’s instructions as follows. 

6  “When we were at Mount Sinai, the Lord our God said to us, ‘You have stayed at this mountain long enough. 

7  It is time to break camp and move on. Go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all the neighboring regions—the Jordan Valley, the hill country, the western foothills, the Negev, and the coastal plain. Go to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, and all the way to the great Euphrates River. 

8  Look, I am giving all this land to you! Go in and occupy it, for it is the land the Lord swore to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to all their descendants.’”

ACTS 7:35-43 

STEPHEN'S SPEECH (continued)

35  “So God sent back the same man his people had previously rejected when they demanded, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge over us?’ Through the angel who appeared to him in the burning bush, God sent Moses to be their ruler and savior.
36  And by means of many wonders and miraculous signs, he led them out of Egypt, through the Red Sea, and through the wilderness for forty years.
37  “Moses himself told the people of Israel, ‘God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from among your own people.’
38  Moses was with our ancestors, the assembly of God’s people in the wilderness, when the angel spoke to him at Mount Sinai. And there Moses received life-giving words to pass on to us.
39  “But our ancestors refused to listen to Moses. They rejected him and wanted to return to Egypt.
40  They told Aaron, ‘Make us some gods who can lead us, for we don’t know what has become of this Moses, who brought us out of Egypt.’
41  So they made an idol shaped like a calf, and they sacrificed to it and celebrated over this thing they had made.
42  Then God turned away from them and abandoned them to serve the stars of heaven as their gods! In the book of the prophets it is written, ‘Was it to me you were bringing sacrifices and offerings during those forty years in the wilderness, Israel?
43  No, you carried your pagan gods—the shrine of Molech, the star of your god Rephan, and the images you made to worship them.  So I will send you into exile as far away as Babylon.’