Exodus 34:4-8

English Standard Version

⁴So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first. And he rose early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand two tablets of stone. ⁵The Lord ^(A)descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and ^(B)proclaimed the name of the Lord. ⁶The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, ^(C)“The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and ^(D)gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast ^(E)love and faithfulness, ⁷^(F)keeping steadfast love for thousands,^[a] ^(G)forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but ^(H)who will by no means clear the guilty, ^(I)visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.” ⁸And Moses quickly ^(J)bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped.

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Exodus 34:7 Or to the thousandth generation

Exodus 34:4-8

New International Version

⁴So Moses chiseled^(A) out two stone tablets like the first ones and went up Mount Sinai early in the morning, as the Lord had commanded him; and he carried the two stone tablets in his hands.^(B) ⁵Then the Lord came down in the cloud^(C) and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the Lord.^(D) ⁶And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate^(E) and gracious God, slow to anger,^(F) abounding in love^(G) and faithfulness,^(H) ⁷maintaining love to thousands,^(I) and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin.^(J) Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished;^(K) he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.”^(L)