(A)keeping steadfast love for thousands,[a] (B)forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but (C)who will by no means clear the guilty, (D)visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.” And Moses quickly (E)bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped. And he said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please (F)let the Lord go in the midst of us, for (G)it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for (H)your inheritance.”

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  1. Exodus 34:7 Or to the thousandth generation

maintaining love to thousands,(A) and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin.(B) Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished;(C) he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.”(D)

Moses bowed to the ground at once and worshiped. “Lord,” he said, “if I have found favor(E) in your eyes, then let the Lord go with us.(F) Although this is a stiff-necked(G) people, forgive our wickedness and our sin,(H) and take us as your inheritance.”(I)

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