16And that there may not be any evil liver, or any man without respect for God, like Esau, who let his birthright go for a plate of food.
17For you have knowledge that even long after, when he was desiring the blessing for his heritage, he was turned away, though he made his request frequently and with weeping; because the past might not be changed.
18You have not come to a mountain which may be touched, and is burning with fire, and to a black cloud, and a dark smoke, and a violent wind,
19And to the sound of a horn, and the voice of words, the hearers of which made request that not a word more might be said to them:
20For the order which said, If the mountain is touched even by a beast, the beast is to be stoned, seemed hard to them;
21And the vision was so overpowering that even Moses said, I am shaking and full of fear.
22But you have come to the mountain of Zion, to the place of the living God, to the Jerusalem which is in heaven, and to an army of angels which may not be numbered,