New Revised Standard Version
(For they could not endure the order that was given, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned to death.”

Contemporary English Version
because they could not obey its commands. They were even told to kill any animal that touched the mountain.

New American Bible
for they could not bear to hear the command: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
For they did not endure that which was said: and if so much as a beast shall touch the mount, it shall be stoned.

For they did not endure that which was said: and if so much as a beast shall touch the mount, it shall be stoned.

For they.

Deuteronomy 33:2 And he said: The Lord came from Sinai, and from Seir he rose up to us: he hath appeared from mount Pharan, and with him thousands of saints. In his right hand a fiery law.

Romans 3:19,20 Now we know that what things soever the law speaketh, it speaketh to them that are in the law: that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be made subject to God. . . .

Galatians 2:19 For I, through the law, am dead to the law, that I may live to God; with Christ I am nailed to the cross.

Galatians 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: Cursed is every one that abideth, not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

if so much.

Exodus 19:13,16 No hands shall touch him, but he shall be stoned to death, or he shall be shot through with arrows: whether it be beast, or man, he shall not live. When the trumpet shall begin to sound, then let them go up into the mount. . . .