²⁶ ‘^(A)Cursed is he who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

⁷ But if the ^(A)ministry of death, ^(B)in letters having been engraved on stones, came ^[a]with glory, ^(C)so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, which was being brought to an end,

Contrast of Sinai and Zion

^18 (A)For you have not come to ^(B)a mountain that can be touched and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and whirlwind, ¹⁹ and to the ^(C)blast of a trumpet and the ^(D)sound of words which was such that those who heard ^(E)begged that no further word be spoken to them. ²⁰ For they could not bear what was being commanded, “^(F)If even a beast touches the mountain, it will be stoned.” ²¹ And so terrible was what appeared, that Moses said, “^(G)I am full of fear and trembling.”