⁷ maintaining faithful love to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, rebellion, and sin.^(A) But he will not leave the guilty^(B) unpunished, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ iniquity on the children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation.

⁹ Then he said, ‘My Lord, if I have indeed found favour with you, my Lord, please go with us (even though this is a stiff-necked people), forgive our iniquity and our sin, and accept us as your own possession.’^(A)

²⁵ God presented him as the mercy seat^[a](A) by his blood,^(B) through faith, to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his restraint God^(C) passed over the sins previously committed.^(D)