We ought therefore to attend the more to the things which we heard, lest at any time we should glide away [from them].

And we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

For God haying promised Abraham, when he could not swear by a greater, swore by himself,

having the golden censer and the ark of the covenant overlaid on every side with gold, in which were the golden vase that had the manna and Aaron's rod that budded and the tables of the covenant,

For the law having a shadow of the good things that were to come, not the very likeness of the things, could not by the sacrifices which they offered continually every year perfect the offerers;

if they could, would they not have ceased to be offered, because those serving would have had no longer a knowledge of sins, having been once purified?

Therefore also we, having so great a cloud of witnesses lying around us, laying aside every impediment and sin which entirely surrounds us, let us run with patience the race set before us,

and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, which those who heard desired that the word might not be spoken to them any more,??20 for they could not bear what was commanded, And if a beast touches the mountain it shall be stoned;