Exodus 34:4-7

New Living Translation

⁴So Moses chiseled out two tablets of stone like the first ones. Early in the morning he climbed Mount Sinai as the Lord had commanded him, and he carried the two stone tablets in his hands.

⁵Then the Lord came down in a cloud and stood there with him; and he called out his own name, Yahweh.^[a] ⁶The Lord passed in front of Moses, calling out,

“Yahweh!^[b] The Lord!
    The God of compassion and mercy!
I am slow to anger
    and filled with unfailing love and faithfulness.
⁷I lavish unfailing love to a thousand generations.^[c]
    I forgive iniquity, rebellion, and sin.
But I do not excuse the guilty.
    I lay the sins of the parents upon their children and grandchildren;
the entire family is affected—
    even children in the third and fourth generations.”

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Footnotes

34:5 Yahweh is a transliteration of the proper name YHWH that is sometimes rendered “Jehovah”; in this translation it is usually rendered “the Lord” (note the use of small capitals).
34:6 See note on 34:5.
34:7 Hebrew for thousands.