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.”
22 But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to tens of thousands of angels, to the festal gathering
23 and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous people made perfect,