17 For you know that also afterwards, when he[a] wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, because he did not find an occasion for repentance, although he sought it with tears.

18 For you have not come to something that can be touched, and to a burning fire, and to darkness, and to gloom, and to a whirlwind, 19 and to the noise of a trumpet, and to the sound of words which those who heard begged that not another word be spoken to them.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 12:17 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal participle (“wanted”)