^7 (A)keeping mercy for thousands, ^(B)forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, ^(C)by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”

¹⁴ (for you shall worship ^(A)no other god, for the Lord, whose ^(B)name is Jealous, is a ^(C)jealous God), ¹⁵ lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they ^(D)play the harlot with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them ^(E)invites you and you ^(F)eat of his sacrifice, ¹⁶ and you take of ^(G)his daughters for your sons, and his daughters ^(H)play the harlot with their gods and make your sons play the harlot with their gods.

^18 (A)‘The Lord is longsuffering and abundant in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He by no means clears the guilty, ^(B)visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.’

¹⁰ and He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not ^[a]be ^(A)slack with him who hates Him; He will repay him to his face.