Exodus 20:6

In 11 translations

BSB

but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.Or to thousands

KJV

And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

WEB

and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

ASV

and showing lovingkindness unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

LSV

and doing kindness to thousands, of those loving Me and keeping My commands.

YLT

and doing kindness to thousands, of those loving Me and keeping My commands.

DBY

and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

DRC

And shewing mercy unto thousands to them that love me, and keep my commandments.

GNV

And shewing mercie vnto thousandes to them that loue me, and keepe my commandemets.

JPS

and showing mercy unto the thousandth generation of them that love Me and keep My commandments.

LXXE

and bestowing mercy on them that love me to thousands of them, and on them that keep my commandments.

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Original-language editions

WLC

וְעֹ֥שֶׂה חֶ֖סֶד לַאֲלָפִ֑ים לְאֹהֲבַ֖י וּלְשֹׁמְרֵ֥י מִצְוֺתָֽי׃וְ/עֹ֥שֶׂהוְ/עֹ֤שֶׂהחֶ֖סֶדחֶ֨סֶד֙לַ/אֲלָפִ֑יםלַ/אֲלָפִ֔ים

LXX-Br

καὶ ποιῶν ἔλεος εἰς χιλιάδας τοῖς ἀγαπῶσί με, καὶ τοῖς φυλάσσουσι τὰ προστάγματά μου.

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• Sinai and the Ten Commandments After leaving Egypt, Israel camps at Sinai, where God gives commandments amid thunder, smoke and a trembling mountain. Beginning with his re…

Cross-references most cited first

• Deuteronomy 7:9Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.
• 1 John 5:3For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
• John 14:21Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
• Jeremiah 32:39–40I will give them one heart and one way, so that they will always fear Me for their own good and for the good of their children after them. I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from…
• Deuteronomy 5:29If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it might be well with them and with their children forever.
• Acts 2:39This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”
• John 14:15If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
• Romans 11:28–29Regarding the gospel, they are enemies on your account; but regarding election, they are loved on account of the patriarchs. For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable.
• Deuteronomy 4:37Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,
• 1 John 4:19We love because He first loved us.
• 2 John 1:6And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love.

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