Then the Lord came down in the cloud(A) and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the Lord.(B) And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate(C) and gracious God, slow to anger,(D) abounding in love(E) and faithfulness,(F) maintaining love to thousands,(G) and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin.(H) Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished;(I) he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.”(J)

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“You shall not make for yourself an image(A) in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship(B) them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God,(C) punishing the children for the sin of the parents(D) to the third and fourth generation(E) of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand(F) generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

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25 Even the land was defiled;(A) so I punished it for its sin,(B) and the land vomited out its inhabitants.(C)

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18 ‘The Lord is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion.(A) Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.’(B)

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33 Your children will be shepherds here for forty years,(A) suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.

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33 “‘Do not pollute the land where you are. Bloodshed pollutes the land,(A) and atonement cannot be made for the land on which blood has been shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

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“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt,(A) out of the land of slavery.(B)

“You shall have no other gods before[a] me.

“You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.(C) You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents(D) to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,(E) 10 but showing love to a thousand(F) generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 5:7 Or besides

19 It is said, ‘God stores up the punishment of the wicked for their children.’(A)
    Let him repay the wicked, so that they themselves will experience it!(B)

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10 Then I thought, “To this I will appeal:
    the years when the Most High stretched out his right hand.(A)

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Do not hold against us the sins of past generations;(A)
    may your mercy come quickly to meet us,
    for we are in desperate need.(B)

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27 But you remain the same,(A)
    and your years will never end.(B)

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14 May the iniquity of his fathers(A) be remembered before the Lord;
    may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.
15 May their sins always remain before(B) the Lord,
    that he may blot out their name(C) from the earth.

16 For he never thought of doing a kindness,
    but hounded to death the poor
    and the needy(D) and the brokenhearted.(E)

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and give him no rest(A) till he establishes Jerusalem
    and makes her the praise(B) of the earth.

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“See, it stands written before me:
    I will not keep silent(A) but will pay back(B) in full;
    I will pay it back into their laps(C)
both your sins(D) and the sins of your ancestors,”(E)
    says the Lord.
“Because they burned sacrifices on the mountains
    and defied me on the hills,(F)
I will measure into their laps
    the full payment(G) for their former deeds.”

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18 You show love(A) to thousands but bring the punishment for the parents’ sins into the laps(B) of their children(C) after them. Great and mighty God,(D) whose name is the Lord Almighty,(E)

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Breaking Covenant by Withholding Tithes

“I the Lord do not change.(A) So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.(B)

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29 for God’s gifts and his call(A) are irrevocable.(B)

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17 Every good and perfect gift is from above,(A) coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights,(B) who does not change(C) like shifting shadows.

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Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.(A)

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