15 Take care that no one falls short of the grace of God; that no one growing up like a root of bitterness causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;
16 that no one be a sexually immoral or totally worldly person like Esau, who for one meal traded his own birthright.
17 For you know that also afterwards, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, because he did not find an occasion for repentance, although he sought it with tears.
18 For you have not come to something that can be touched, and to a burning fire, and to darkness, and to gloom, and to a whirlwind,
19 and to the noise of a trumpet, and to the sound of words which those who heard begged that not another word be spoken to them.
20 For they could not endure what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned.”
21 And the spectacle was so terrifying that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.”