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20 They did not want to hear the command: “If anything, even an animal, touches the mountain, it must be killed with stones.”[a] 21 What they saw was so terrible that Moses said, “I am shaking with fear.”[b][c]

22 But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem.[d] You have come to a place where thousands of angels have gathered to celebrate.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 12:20 Quote from Ex. 19:12-13.
  2. Hebrews 12:21 Quote from Deut. 9:19.
  3. Hebrews 12:21 These verses refer to things that happened to the people of Israel in the time of Moses as described in Ex. 19.
  4. Hebrews 12:22 Jerusalem Here, the spiritual city of God’s people.

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