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21 What they saw was so terrible that Moses said, “I am shaking with fear.”[a]

22 But you have come to Mount Zion,[b] to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands of angels gathered together with joy. 23 You have come to the meeting of God’s firstborn[c] children whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the judge of all people, and to the spirits of good people who have been made perfect.

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Footnotes

  1. 12:21 “I . . . fear.” Quotation from Deuteronomy 9:19.
  2. 12:22 Mount Zion Another name for Jerusalem, here meaning the spiritual city of God’s people.
  3. 12:23 firstborn The first son born in a Jewish family was given the most important place in the family and received special blessings. All of God’s children are like that.

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