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What does Acts 7:38 mean?

"This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,"

— Acts 7:38 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

35

“This Moses, whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

36

This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

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This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, ‘The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me.’

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This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,

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to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

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saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.’

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They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.

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