³ No one is to come with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain;^(A) not even the flocks and herds may graze in front of the mountain.”

¹² Put limits^(A) for the people around the mountain and tell them, ‘Be careful that you do not approach the mountain or touch the foot of it. Whoever touches the mountain is to be put to death. ¹³ They are to be stoned^(B) or shot with arrows; not a hand is to be laid on them. No person or animal shall be permitted to live.’ Only when the ram’s horn^(C) sounds a long blast may they approach the mountain.”^(D)

²¹ and the Lord said to him, “Go down and warn the people so they do not force their way through to see^(A) the Lord and many of them perish.^(B)

²⁰ because they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned to death.”^[a](A)

⁵ For there is one God^(A) and one mediator^(B) between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus,^(C)

¹⁷ No one is to be in the tent of meeting from the time Aaron goes in to make atonement in the Most Holy Place until he comes out, having made atonement for himself, his household and the whole community of Israel.