^{18 Ref} For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, tempest,

^{19 Ref} the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,

^{20 Ref} for they could not stand that which was commanded, "If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned{TR adds "or shot with an arrow" [see Exodus 19:12-13]};"