Numbers 14:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ ‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the parents upon the children to the third and the fourth generation.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ The Lord is long-suffering and slow to anger, and abundant in mercy and loving-kindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and fourth generation. [Exod. 34:6, 7.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ Jehovah is slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ ‘The LORD is very patient and absolutely loyal, forgiving wrongs and disloyalty. Yet he doesn’t forgo all punishment, disciplining the grandchildren and great-grandchildren for their ancestors’ wrongs.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ 'The Lord is patient and full of mercy, taking away iniquity and wickedness, and forsaking no one who is harmless. He visits the sins of the fathers upon the sons, to the third and fourth generation.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ The Lord is patient and full of mercy, taking away iniquity and wickedness, and leaving no man clear. Who visitest the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation:

Numbers 14:18 Cross References

Nehemiah 9:17

they refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and you did not forsake them.

Job 21:19

You say, ‘God stores up their iniquity for their children.’ Let it be paid back to them, so that they may know it.

Psalm 103:8

The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

Psalm 108:4

For your steadfast love is higher than the heavens, and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

Psalm 109:14

May the iniquity of his father be remembered before the Lord, and do not let the sin of his mother be blotted out.

Psalm 145:8

The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

Psalm 78:38

Yet he, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them; often he restrained his anger and did not stir up all his wrath.

Psalm 86:15

But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

Exodus 20:5

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me

Exodus 20:6

but showing steadfast love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Jeremiah 23:2

Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who shepherd my people: It is you who have scattered my flock and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. So I will attend to you for your evil doings, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 32:18

You show steadfast love to the thousandth generation but repay the guilt of parents into the laps of their children after them, O great and mighty God whose name is the Lord of hosts,

Lamentations 5:7

Our ancestors sinned; they are no more, and we bear their iniquities.

Jonah 4:2

He prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord! Is not this what I said while I was still in my own country? That is why I fled to Tarshish at the beginning, for I knew that you are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from punishment.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant of his possession? He does not retain his anger forever because he delights in showing steadfast love.

Numbers 14:17

And now, therefore, let the power of the Lord be great in the way that you promised when you spoke, saying,

Numbers 23:21

He has not beheld misfortune in Jacob, nor has he seen trouble in Israel. The Lord their God is with them, acclaimed as a king among them.

Romans 5:21

so that, just as sin reigned in death, so grace might also reign through justification leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Deuteronomy 5:10

but showing steadfast love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Deuteronomy 5:9

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents to the third and fourth generation of those who reject me

Deuteronomy 7:10

and who repays in their own person those who reject him. He does not delay but repays in their own person those who reject him.

Deuteronomy 7:9

Know, therefore, that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who maintains covenant loyalty with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,