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Hebrews 12:20

(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:
Hebrews 12:20 · King James Version

In other versions

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

    ASV

  • For the order which said, If the mountain is touched even by a beast, the beast is to be stoned, seemed hard to them;

    BBE

  • (for they were not able to bear what was enjoined: And if a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned;

    DBY

  • for they could not stand that which was commanded, "If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned;"

    WEB

  • 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,'

    YLT

  • (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:

    ENG

  • (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:

    WBT

  • For they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned.”

    BSB

In context

18For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

19And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:

20(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:

21And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)

22But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

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