Why do you gaze with envy, you mountain peaks, at the mountain God desired for His dwelling? Yes, Adonai will dwell there forever!
Hebrews 2:2 - Tree of Life Version For if the word spoken through angels proved to be firm, and every violation and disobedience received a just payback, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For if the message given through angels [the Law spoken by them to Moses] was authentic and proved sure, and every violation and disobedience received an appropriate (just and adequate) penalty, American Standard Version (1901) For if the word spoken through angels proved stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward; Common English Bible If the message that was spoken by angels was reliable, and every offense and act of disobedience received an appropriate consequence, Catholic Public Domain Version For if a word that was spoken through the Angels has been made firm, and every transgression and disobedience has received the recompense of a just retribution, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For if the word, spoken by angels, became steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward: |
Why do you gaze with envy, you mountain peaks, at the mountain God desired for His dwelling? Yes, Adonai will dwell there forever!
Yet while the meat was between their teeth, before it was swallowed, Adonai’s anger burned against the people. So Adonai struck the people with a severe plague.
However, there were 14,700 dead from the plague, besides those who died because of Korah.
So Adonai sent poisonous serpents among the people, and they bit the people and many of the people of Israel died.
you who received the Torah by direction of angels and did not keep it!”
Then why the Torah? It was added because of wrongdoings until the Seed would come—to whom the promise had been made. It was arranged through angels by the hand of an intermediary.
The man who acts presumptuously by not listening to the kohen who stands to serve there before Adonai your God, or to the judge, that man must die. So you are to purge the evil from Israel.
Suppose there is found in your midst—within one of your gates that Adonai your God is giving you—a man or woman who does what is evil in the eyes of Adonai your God by transgressing His covenant.
Then you are to bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing, and stone that man or woman with stones to death.
‘Cursed is the one who does not uphold the words of this Torah by doing them.’ Then all the people are to say, ‘Amen.’
May my teaching trickle like rain, my speech distill like dew— like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.
At many times and in many ways, God spoke long ago to the fathers through the prophets.
Anyone who rejected the Torah of Moses dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.
He considered the disgrace of Messiah as greater riches than the treasures of Egypt—because he was looking ahead to the reward.
Now without faith it is impossible to please God. For the one who comes to God must believe that He exists and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.
See to it that you do not refuse the One who is speaking! For if they did not escape when they refused the One who was warning them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject the One who warns us from heaven.
Furthermore, we have the reliable prophetic word. You do well by paying attention to it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.
Now I wish to remind you—though you have come to know all things —that the Lord, once having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.