17. For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears.
18. For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest
19. and the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them.
20. For they could not endure the order that was given, “If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned.”
21. Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I tremble with fear.”
22. But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,