World English Bible

Hebrews 12:20

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

Verse in context — Hebrews 12

For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,

the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,

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

and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, "I am terrified and trembling.

But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,

Jesus as the ultimate High Priest and fulfillment of the Old Covenant.