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Exodus 34:9 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go among us, even though this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.” "
Exodus 34:9
Verse in Context
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7 keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”
8 Moses hurried and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.
9 He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go among us, even though this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”
10 He said, “Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been worked in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD; for it is an awesome thing that I do with you.
11 Observe that which I command you today. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
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Exodus 34:1
"The LORD said to Moses, “Chisel two stone tablets like the first. I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke."
Exodus 34:2
"Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain."
Exodus 34:3
"No one shall come up with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain. Do not let the flocks or herds graze in front of that mountain.”"
Exodus 34:4
"He chiseled two tablets of stone like the first; then Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand two stone tablets."
Exodus 34:5
"The LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the LORD’s name."
Exodus 34:6
"The LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, “The LORD! The LORD, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,"
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