6. And Jehovah passed by before his face, and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah ·God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth,
7. keeping mercy unto thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but by no means clearing the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.
8. And Moses made haste, and bowed his head to the earth and worshipped,
9. and said, If indeed I have found grace in thine eyes, Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in our midst; for it is a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for an inheritance!