Numbers 14:18 meaning and explanation
‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.’
Numbers 14:18, Berean Standard Bible
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Moses is pleading with God after Israel refused to enter Canaan, and he quotes God's own self description from after the golden calf. The Hebrew word chesed, here "loving devotion," means God's loyal covenant faithfulness.
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