Exodus 34:7 meaning and explanation
maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”
Exodus 34:7, Berean Standard Bible
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These words come as the LORD passes before Moses on Mount Sinai and proclaims His own name, after Israel broke the covenant with the golden calf. God keeps chesed, a Hebrew word for steadfast covenant love, to a thousand generations, and He forgives iniquity, transgression and sin, three terms that together cover the whole range of wrongdoing.
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