18 You have not come to a place that can be seen and touched, like the mountain the people of Israel saw, which was burning with fire and covered with darkness, gloom, and storms.
19 There is no sound of a trumpet or a voice speaking words like those they heard. When they heard the voice, they begged never to hear another word.
20 They did not want to hear the command: “If anything, even an animal, touches the mountain, it must be killed with stones.”
21 What they saw was so terrible that Moses said, “I am shaking with fear.”
22 But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to a place where thousands of angels have gathered to celebrate.
23 You have come to the meeting of God’s firstborn children. Their names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the judge of all people. And you have come to the spirits of good people who have been made perfect.
24 You have come to Jesus—the one who brought the new agreement from God to his people. You have come to the sprinkled blood that tells us about better things than the blood of Abel.