18 (A)The Lord is slow to anger and abundant in mercy, forgiving wrongdoing and violation of His Law; but (B)He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, (C)inflicting the [a]punishment of the fathers on the children [b]to the third and the fourth generations.’ 19 Please (D)forgive the guilt of this people in accordance with the greatness of Your mercy, just as You also have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 14:18 I.e., punishment for the wrongdoing
  2. Numbers 14:18 Lit on

18 ‘The Lord is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion.(A) Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.’(B) 19 In accordance with your great love, forgive(C) the sin of these people,(D) just as you have pardoned them from the time they left Egypt until now.”(E)

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34 In accordance with the (A)number of days that you spied out the land, forty days, for every day you shall suffer the punishment for your [a]guilt a year, that is, forty years, and you will know My opposition.

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  1. Numbers 14:34 Or wrongdoings

34 For forty years(A)—one year for each of the forty days you explored the land(B)—you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you.’

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How blessed is a person whose guilt the Lord (A)does not take into account,
And in whose spirit there is (B)no deceit!

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Blessed is the one
    whose sin the Lord does not count against them(A)
    and in whose spirit is no deceit.(B)

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I (A)acknowledged my sin to You,
And I (B)did not hide my guilt;
I said, “(C)I will confess my wrongdoings to the Lord”;
And You (D)forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah

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Then I acknowledged my sin to you
    and did not cover up my iniquity.(A)
I said, “I will confess(B)
    my transgressions(C) to the Lord.”
And you forgave
    the guilt of my sin.(D)

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