Many a time He delivered them; but they provoked Him by their counsel, and they were brought low by their iniquities.

And He remembered His covenant, and relented according to the multitude of His mercy.

And the Lord passed by before his face, and proclaimed, The Lord God, gracious and merciful, longsuffering and very compassionate, and true,

An Moses hastened, and bowed to the earth and worshipped;

The Lord [is] longsuffering and merciful, and true, removing transgressions and iniquities and sins, and He shall by no means clear the guilty, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation.

And the Lord said to Moses, I am gracious to them according to your word.

And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

And Moses said to Aaron, Take a censer, and put on it fire from the altar, and put incense on it, and carry it away quickly into the camp, and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone forth from the presence of the Lord, and it has begun to destroy the people.

And he stood between the dead and the living, and the plague ceased.

Remember these things, O Jacob and Israel; for you are My servant; I have formed you [to be] My servant; and do not forget Me, O Israel.

For behold, I have blotted your transgressions out as a cloud, and your sin as darkness; turn to Me, and I will redeem you.

For My own sake will I show you My wrath, and will bring before you My glorious acts, that I may not utterly destroy you.

But they revolted against Me, and would not hearken to Me: they cast not away the abominations of their eyes, and forsook not the devices of Egypt. Then I said that I would pour out My wrath upon them, to accomplish My wrath upon them in the midst of Egypt.

But I acted [so] that My name should not be at all profaned in the sight of the Gentiles, in the midst of whom they are, among whom I was made known to them in their sight, to bring them out of the land of Egypt.

And I said to the house of Israel in the wilderness, Walk in My commandments: but they walked not [in them], and they rejected My ordinances, which [if] a man shall do, he shall even live in them; and they grievously profaned My Sabbaths. And I said that I would pour out My wrath upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

But I acted [so] that My name should not be at all profaned before the Gentiles, before whose eyes I brought them out.

Yet My eyes spared them, so as [not] to destroy them utterly, and I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.

But they provoked Me, and their children walked not in My commandments, and they took no heed to My ordinances to do them, which [if] a man shall do, he shall even live in them, and they profaned My Sabbaths. Then I said that I would pour out My wrath upon them in the wilderness, to accomplish My anger upon them.

But I acted so that My name might not be at all profaned before the Gentiles; and I brought them out in their sight.

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done.