Numbers 14:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

The LORD. Jehovah. Quoted from Exodus 34:6; Exodus 20:5 with Exodus 34:7.

mercy. lovingkindness, or grace.

iniquity. Hebrew. 'avah. App-44.

transgression. Hebrew. pasha. App-44. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel and Septuagint, read "transgression and sin", as in Exodus 34:7.

Numbers 14:18

18 The LORD is longsuffering, 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.