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18 For it is no tangible blazing fire that you have come up to, no blackness and darkness and storm,
19 no trumpet blast and voice whose words made those who heard them beg to be told no more,
20 for they could not bear the order, "Even a wild animal, if it touches the mountain, must be stoned to death,"
21 and so awful was the sight that Moses said, "I am aghast and appalled!"
22 But you have come up to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to countless angels,
23 to the solemn gathering of all God's elder sons, enrolled as citizens in heaven, to a judge who is the God of all, to the spirits of upright men now at last enjoying the fulfilment of their hopes,
24 to Jesus the negotiator of a new agreement, and to sprinkled blood that speaks more powerfully than even Abel's.
25 Take care not to refuse to listen to him who is speaking. For if they could not escape because they would not listen to him who warned them here on earth, how much less can we, who reject him who is from heaven!
26 Then his voice shook the earth, but now his promise is, "But once more I will make not only the earth but the very heaven to tremble!"