17 For you know that afterward, when he wished to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it with tears.
18 For you have not drawn near to a mountain touched and scorched with fire, and to blackness, and darkness and storm,
19 and a sound of a trumpet, and a voice of words, so that those who heard it begged that no further Word should be spoken to them,
20 for they could not bear what was commanded, “If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned or shot through with an arrow.”
21 And so fearsome was the sight that Mosheh said, “I exceedingly fear and tremble.”
22 But you have drawn near to Mount Tsiyon and to the city of the living Elohim, to the heavenly Yerushalayim, to myriads of messengers,
23 to the entire gathering and assembly of the first-born having been enrolled in heaven, and to Elohim the Judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous men made perfect,