Exodus 34:7

keeping steadfast love for thousands, [1] forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.”

Exodus 20:5-6

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands [2] of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Deuteronomy 5:10

10 but showing steadfast love to thousands [3] of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Jeremiah 32:18

18 You show steadfast love to thousands, but you repay the guilt of fathers to their children after them, O great and mighty God, whose name is the Lord of hosts,

Daniel 9:4

I prayed to the Lord my God and made confession, saying, “O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments,

Translation Notes

[1] 34:7 Or to the thousandth generation
[2] 20:6 Or to the thousandth generation
[3] 5:10 Or to the thousandth generation

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