Hebrews 12:20

New Testament Epistle (General) ASV (1901)

for they could not endure that which was enjoined, If even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned;

Hebrews 12:20 — American Standard Version

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Context — Hebrews 12

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17For ye know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place for a change of mind [in his father,] though he sought is diligently with tears.

18For ye are not come unto [a mount] that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

19and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which [voice] they that heard entreated that no word more should be spoken unto them;

20for they could not endure that which was enjoined, If even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned;

21and so fearful was the appearance, [that] Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:

22but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels,

23to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

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