Reserving mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, and transgression and sin, and not [a]making the wicked innocent, (A)visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon children’s children, unto the third and fourth generation.

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  1. Exodus 34:7 Hebrew, not making innocent.

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)

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18 (A)Thou showest mercy unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their [a]children after them: O God the great and mighty, whose name is the Lord of hosts,

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  1. Jeremiah 32:18 Because the wicked are subject to the curse of God, he showeth that their posterity which by nature are under this malediction, shall be punisheth both for their own wickedness, and that the iniquity of their fathers, which is likewise in them, shall be also revenged on their head.

18 You show love(A) to thousands but bring the punishment for the parents’ sins into the laps(B) of their children(C) after them. Great and mighty God,(D) whose name is the Lord Almighty,(E)

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