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20 They did not want to hear the command: “If anything, even an animal, touches the mountain, it must be put to death with stones.”[a] 21 What they saw was so terrible that Moses said, “I am shaking with fear.”[b]

22 But you have come to Mount Zion,[c] to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands of angels gathered together with joy.

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Footnotes

  1. 12:20 “If . . . stones.” Quotation from Exodus 19:12–13.
  2. 12:21 “I . . . fear.” Quotation from Deuteronomy 9:19.
  3. 12:22 Mount Zion Another name for Jerusalem, here meaning the spiritual city of God’s people.

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