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Hebrews 12:20

American Standard Version

for they could not endure that which was enjoined, If even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned;

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Hebrews 12:20 in other translations

for they could not stand that which was commanded, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned”.

Hebrews 12:20 · World English Bible

Hebrews 12:20 in context

  1. 18For ye are not come unto a mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
  2. 19and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard entreated that no word more should be spoken unto them;
  3. 20for they could not endure that which was enjoined, If even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned;
  4. 21and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:
  5. 22but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels,