² Moses alone shall come near the Lord, but the others shall not come near, and the people shall not come up with him.”

²¹ and since we have a great priest over the house of God,^{(A) 22} let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.^(B)

¹⁸ Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain. Moses was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights.^(A)

¹⁵ Then Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.^(A)

¹³ So Moses set out with his assistant Joshua, and Moses went up onto the mountain of God.

²⁴ For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made by human hands, a mere copy of the true one, but he entered into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.^(A)

¹⁹ Like a lion coming up from the thickets of the Jordan to a perennial pasture, I will suddenly chase Edom^[a] away from it, and I will appoint over it whomever I choose.^[b] For who is like me? Who can summon me? Who is the shepherd who can stand before me?^(A)

⁵ Then he spoke to Korah and all his congregation, saying, “In the morning the Lord will make known who is his and who is holy and who will be allowed to approach him; the one whom he will choose he will allow to approach him.^(A)

²¹ Then the people stood at a distance, while Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.^(A)