15. See to it that no one falls short of the favour of Elohim, that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, by which many become defiled,
16. lest there be anyone who whores, or profane one, like Ěsaw, who for a single meal sold his birthright.
17. For you know that afterward, when he wished to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it with tears.
18. For you have not drawn near to a mountain touched and scorched with fire, and to blackness, and darkness and storm,
19. and a sound of a trumpet, and a voice of words, so that those who heard it begged that no further Word should be spoken to them,
20. for they could not bear what was commanded, “If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned or shot through with an arrow.”
21. And so fearsome was the sight that Mosheh said, “I exceedingly fear and tremble.”