15 Be careful that no one fails to receive God’s grace and begins to cause trouble among you. A person like that can ruin many of you.
16 Be careful that no one takes part in sexual sin or is like Esau and never thinks about God. As the oldest son, Esau would have received everything from his father, but he sold all that for a single meal.
17 You remember that after Esau did this, he wanted to get his father’s blessing, but his father refused. Esau could find no way to change what he had done, even though he wanted the blessing so much that he cried.
18 You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire. You have not come to darkness, sadness, and storms.
19 You have not come to the noise of a trumpet or to the sound of a voice like the one the people of Israel heard and begged not to hear another word.
20 They did not want to hear the command: “If anything, even an animal, touches the mountain, it must be put to death with stones.”
21 What they saw was so terrible that Moses said, “I am shaking with fear.”