Exodus 34:9 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Exodus 34:9

7 ^akeeping mercy for thousands, ^bforgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, ^cby no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”

8 So Moses made haste and ^abowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.

9 Then he said, “If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Lord, ^alet my Lord, I pray, go among us, even though we are a ^bstiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as ^cYour inheritance.”

The Covenant Renewed

10 And He said: “Behold, ^aI make a covenant. Before all your people I will ^bdo marvels such as have not been done 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 ^can awesome thing that I will do with you.

11 ^aObserve what I command you this day. Behold, ^bI am driving out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.

12 ^aTake heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be a snare in your midst.

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he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us—On this proclamation, he, in the overflowing benevolence of s heart, founded an earnest petition for the Divine Presence being continued with the people; and God was pleased to give His favorable answer to Moses' intercession by a renewal of His promise under the form of a covenant, repeating the leading points that formed the conditions of the former national compact.

Exodus 34:8-26

Moses bowed . . . and worshipped—In the East, people bow the head to royalty, and are silent when it passes by, while in the West, they take off their hats and shout.

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