¹⁷ For you know that even afterwards, ^(A)when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought for it with tears.

Contrast of Sinai and Zion

^18 (B)For you have not come to ^(C)a mountain that can be touched and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and whirlwind, ¹⁹ and to the ^(D)blast of a trumpet and the ^(E)sound of words which was such that those who heard ^(F)begged that no further word be spoken to them.