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

The Greater Glory of the New Covenant

⁷ Now if the ministry that brought death,^(A) which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory,^(B) transitory though it was,