And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shone forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt; who gave him a house, and appointed him food, and gave him land.
You have ascended on high, you have led captivity captive: you have received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.
But if the ministry of death, written and engraved in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance; which glory was to come to an end:
For as many as are depending on the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
What then is the purpose of the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the offspring should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them to me.
(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;