⁷ maintaining love to thousands,^(A) and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin.^(B) Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished;^(C) he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.”^(D)

¹⁴ Do not worship any other god,^(A) for the Lord, whose name^(B) is Jealous, is a jealous God.^(C)

¹⁵ “Be careful not to make a treaty^(D) with those who live in the land; for when they prostitute^(E) themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you and you will eat their sacrifices.^{(F) 16} And when you choose some of their daughters as wives^(G) for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods,^(H) they will lead your sons to do the same.

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)

¹⁰ But