² For since the message spoken^(A) through angels^(B) was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment,^(C)

⁵³ you who have received the law that was given through angels^(A) but have not obeyed it.”

¹⁹ Why, then, was the law given at all? It was added because of transgressions^(A) until the Seed^(B) to whom the promise referred had come. The law was given through angels^(C) and entrusted to a mediator.^(D)

⁵ Though you already know all this,^(A) I want to remind you^(B) that the Lord^[a] at one time delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe.^(C)

²⁸ Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.^(A)