Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For they were not able to abide that which was spoken. If a beast had touched the mountain, it must have been stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
New American Standard Bible
For they could not bear the command, “
King James Version
(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
Holman Bible
for they could not bear what was commanded: And if even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned!
International Standard Version
For they could not endure the command that was given: "If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned to death."
A Conservative Version
For they did not bear that which was commanded, if even a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned.
American Standard Version
for they could not endure that which was enjoined, If even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned;
Amplified
For they could not bear the command, “If even a wild animal touches the mountain, it will be stoned [to death].”
An Understandable Version
For those people could not stand [hearing] the command [Ex. 19:12f], "If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned [to death]."
Anderson New Testament
for they could not endure that which was commanded, And if even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned:
Bible in Basic English
For the order which said, If the mountain is touched even by a beast, the beast is to be stoned, seemed hard to them;
Common New Testament
For they could not endure the order that was given, "If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned."
Daniel Mace New Testament
nor could they endure that threat, "if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned."
Darby Translation
(for they were not able to bear what was enjoined: And if a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned;
Godbey New Testament
for they could not endure that which was spoken, If a wild beast should touch the mountain, it shall be pierced through with a dart:
Goodspeed New Testament
for they could not bear the order, "Even a wild animal, if it touches the mountain, must be stoned to death,"
John Wesley New Testament
For they could not bear that which was commanded, If even a beast touch the mountain, let it be stoned.
Julia Smith Translation
(For they did not bear that being assigned, And if a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or shall be pierced with a missile weapon:
King James 2000
(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as an animal touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a spear:
Lexham Expanded Bible
For they could not endure what was commanded: "If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned."
Modern King James verseion
for they could not endure the thing commanded, "And if so much as a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned or thrust through with a dart,"
Moffatt New Testament
(for they could not bear the command, If even a beast touches the mountain, it must be stoned) ??21 indeed, so awful was the sight that Moses said, I am terrified and aghast.
Montgomery New Testament
For they could not endure that which was enjoined, Even if a wild beast touches the mountain it shall be stoned to death;
NET Bible
For they could not bear what was commanded: "If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned."
New Heart English Bible
for they could not stand that which was commanded, "If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned;"
Noyes New Testament
for they could not bear that which was commanded, "If even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned;" and,
The Emphasized Bible
For they could not bear, that which was being enjoined, - and, should a beast be touching the mountain, it shall be stoned;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
for they could not bear the charge given, and "If but a beast touch the mountain he shall be stoned, or shot through with a dart:"
Twentieth Century New Testament
for they could not bear to think of the command-- 'If even an animal touches the mountain, it is to be stoned to death;'
Webster
(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
Weymouth New Testament
For they could not endure the order which had been given, "Even a wild beast, if it touches the mountain, shall be stoned to death;"
Williams New Testament
for they did not try to bear the order, "Even if a wild animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned to death,"
World English Bible
for they could not stand that which was commanded, "If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned;"
Worrell New Testament
for they could not bear that which was being commanded: "And, if a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned";
Worsley New Testament
(for they could not bear the strict command, if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or shot through with a dart;
Youngs Literal Translation
for they were not bearing that which is commanded, 'And if a beast may touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or with an arrow shot through,'
Themes
Covenant » The second covenant
the Law of moses » None to approach the mount while God gave
the Law of moses » Darkness, &c at giving of, illustrative of obscurity of mosaic dispensation
Vision » Of the israelites » Of the manifestation of the glory of God
Interlinear
Diastellomai
References
Word Count of 36 Translations in Hebrews 12:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Kingdom That Cannot Be Shaken
19 neither unto the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words: which voice they that heard it, wished away, that the communication should not be spoken to them. 20 For they were not able to abide that which was spoken. If a beast had touched the mountain, it must have been stoned, or thrust through with a dart: 21 even so terrible was the sight which appeared. Moses said, "I fear and quake."
Names
Cross References
Exodus 19:12-13
And set marks round about the people and say, 'Beware that ye go not up into the mount, and that ye touch not the borders of it, for whosoever toucheth the mount, shall surely die.
Exodus 19:16
And the third day in the morning there was thunder, and lightning and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the horn waxed exceeding loud, and all the people that was in the host was afraid.
Deuteronomy 33:2
saying, "The LORD came from Sinai, and showed his beams from Seir unto them; and appeared gloriously from mount Paran, and he came with thousands of saints, and in his righthand a law of fire for them.
Romans 3:19-20
Yea and we know that whatsoever the law saith, he saith it to them which are under the law: That all mouths may be stopped, and all the world be subdued to God,
Galatians 2:19
But I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
Galatians 3:10
For as many as are under the deeds of the law, are under malediction. For it is written, "Cursed is every man that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to fulfil them."