Exodus 34 (WK) - Bible Truth Library

Nothing can more strongly express the goodness of God to frail mortals than this declaration, "which has been misunderstood and misinterpreted by all our translators."

Ex. 23:7,21• ⁷Thou shalt keep far from the cause of falsehood; and the innocent and righteous slay not; for I will not justify the wicked.
²¹Be careful in his presence, and hearken unto his voice: do not provoke him, for he will not forgive your transgressions; for my name is in him. (Ex. 23:7,21)

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Num. 14:18‑23• ¹⁸Jehovah is long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
¹⁹Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people, according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
²⁰And Jehovah said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
²¹but as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Jehovah!
²²for all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice,
²³shall in no wise see the land which I did swear unto their fathers: none of them that despised me shall see it. (Num. 14:18‑23)

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Deut. 32:35• ³⁵Vengeance is mine, and recompense,{HR}For the time when their foot shall slip.{HR}For the day of their calamity is at hand,{HR}And the things that shall come upon them make haste.{HR} (Deut. 32:35)

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Josh. 24:19• ¹⁹And Joshua said to the people, Ye cannot serve Jehovah, for he is a holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins. (Josh. 24:19)

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Job 10:14• ¹⁴If I should sin, thou wouldest mark me,{HR}And not in mine iniquity hold me guiltless. (Job 10:14)

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Psa. 9:16‑17• ¹⁶Jehovah is become known;{HR}He hath executed judgment:{HR}In the work of his own hands the wicked [man] is ensnared.{HR}Higgayon. Selah.
¹⁷The wicked shall turn back into Sheol{HR}All [the] Gentiles [that are] forgetful of God. (Psa. 9:16‑17)

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Psa. 11:5‑6• ⁵Jehovah proveth the righteous [man];{HR}And the wicked [man]{HR}And him who loveth violence his soul hateth.
⁶He will rain upon the wicked snares, fire and brimstone{HR}And a burning tempest—the portion of their cup. (Psa. 11:5‑6)

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Psa. 58:10‑11• ¹⁰The righteous one shall rejoice,{HR}For he hath seen vengeance;{HR}His steps he shall wash in the blood of the wicked one;
¹¹And a man shall say, Surely the righteous one hath fruit;{HR}Surely there is a God judging in the earth. (Psa. 58:10‑11)

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Psa. 136:10,15• ¹⁰To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn;{HR}For his mercy [is] forever;
¹⁵And shook off Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea;{HR}For his mercy [is] forever. (Psa. 136:10,15)

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Isa. 45:21• ²¹Declare, and bring [them] near; yea, let them take counsel together. Who hath declared this from ancient time? [who] hath told it long ago? [Have] not I Jehovah? and there is no God else besides me; a just God and a Saviour, there is none besides me. (Isa. 45:21)

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Mic. 6:11• ¹¹Shall I be pure with the unjust balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? (Mic. 6:11)

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Nah. 1:2‑3,6• ²A God jealous and avenging is Jehovah; Jehovah revengeth, and is furious; Jehovah will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
³Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit [the wicked]: Jehovah hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
⁶Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him. (Nah. 1:2‑3,6)

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Rom. 2:4‑9• ⁴Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
⁵But according to thy hardness and unrepentant heart thou treasurest to thyself wrath in [the] day of wrath and revelation of God's righteous judgment,
⁶who shall render to each according to his works:
⁷to those that with patience in good work seek for glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life;
⁸but to those that are contentious and disobey the truth but obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation,
⁹tribulation and anguish on every soul of man that worketh out evil, both of Jew first and of Greek; (Rom. 2:4‑9)

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Rom. 3:19‑26• ¹⁹Now we know that whatever things the law saith, it speaketh to those that [are] in the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be under judgment with God.
²⁰Wherefore by works of law no flesh shall be justified before him, for by law [is] knowledge of sin.
²¹But now apart from law God's righteousness is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets,
²²even God's righteousness through faith in Jesus Christ unto all, and upon all that believe. For there is no difference;
²³for all sinned, and come short of the glory of God,
²⁴being justified gratuitously by his grace through the redemption that [is] in Christ Jesus,
²⁵whom God set forth as a propitiatory through faith in his blood, for a declaration of his righteousness on account of the praeter-mission of the sins that had been before, in the forbearance of God,
²⁶with a view to the declaration of his righteousness in the present time, in order to his being just and justifying him that [is] of faith in Jesus. (Rom. 3:19‑26)

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Rom. 9:22‑23• ²²And if God, willing to display his wrath and to make known his power, endured in much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction,
²³and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy which he before prepared for glory— (Rom. 9:22‑23)

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Heb. 12:29• ²⁹For also our God is a consuming fire. (Heb. 12:29)

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Rev. 20:15• ¹⁵And if Anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire. (Rev. 20:15)

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Rev. 21:8• ⁸But for the cowardly and faithless and abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. (Rev. 21:8)

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J. N. Darby Translation

keeping mercy unto thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but by no means clearing the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.

W. Kelly Translation

WK Verse Note

(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)