^{18 Ref} For ye came not near to the mount touched and scorched with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

^{19 Ref} and a sound of a trumpet, and a voice of sayings, which those having heard did entreat that a word might not be added to them,

^{20 Ref} for they were not bearing that which is commanded, `And if a beast may touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or with an arrow shot through,'

^{21 Ref} and, (so terrible was the sight,) Moses said, `I am fearful exceedingly, and trembling.'

^{22 Ref} But, ye came to Mount Zion, and to a city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of messengers,

^{23 Ref} to the company and assembly of the first-born in heaven enrolled, and to God the judge of all, and to spirits of righteous men made perfect,

^{24 Ref} and to a mediator of a new covenant -- Jesus, and to blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than that of Abel!

^{25 Ref} See, may ye not refuse him who is speaking, for if those did not escape who refused him who upon earth was divinely speaking -- much less we who do turn away from him who `speaketh' from heaven,

^{26 Ref} whose voice the earth shook then, and now hath he promised, saying, `Yet once -- I shake not only the earth, but also the heaven;'