20 They couldn’t stand the command, If even a wild animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned.
21 The sight was so frightening that Moses said, "I’m terrified and shaking!"
22 But you have drawn near to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, heavenly Jerusalem, to countless angels in a festival gathering,
23 to the assembly of God’s firstborn children who are registered in heaven, to God the judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous who have been made perfect,
24 to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks better than Abel’s blood.
25 See to it that you don’t resist the one who is speaking. If the people didn’t escape when they refused to listen to the one who warned them on earth, how will we escape if we reject the one who is warning from heaven?
26 His voice shook the earth then, but now he has made a promise: Still once more I will shake not only the earth but heaven also.