"You shall set bounds for the people all around, saying, 'Take heed to yourselves [that] you do [not] go up to the mountain or touch its base. Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death.

'Not a hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot [with an arrow;] whether man or beast, he shall not live.' When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come near the mountain."

And the LORD said to Moses, "Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to gaze at the LORD, and many of them perish.

"There shall be no man in the tabernacle of meeting when he goes in to make atonement in the Holy [Place,] until he comes out, that he may make atonement for himself, for his household, and for all the assembly of Israel.

For [there is] one God and one Mediator between God and men, [the] Man Christ Jesus,

(For they could not endure what was commanded: "And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned or shot with an arrow."