11 translations · Hebrew
Exodus 34:6
Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
Exodus 34:6 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
- KJV King James Version
- And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,
- ASV American Standard Version
- And Jehovah passed by before him, and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth;
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- and YHWH passes over before his face, and calls: “YHWH, YHWH God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth,
- FBV Free Bible Version
- The Lord passed in front of him, calling out, “Yahweh! Yahweh! I am the God of grace and mercy! I am slow to become angry, full of trustworthy love and always faithful.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- and Jehovah passeth over before his face, and calleth: 'Jehovah, Jehovah God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth,
- DBY Darby Translation
- And Jehovah passed by before his face, and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth,
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- The LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, “The LORD! The LORD, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- And when he passed before him, he said: O the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, patient and of much compassion, and true,
The Hebrew words
Each word of the Hebrew text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| וַיַּעֲבֹ֨ר | way·ya·‘ă·ḇōr | passed | H5674 עָבַר to pass |
| יְהוָ֥ה׀ | Yah·weh | Then the LORD | H3068 יְהֹוָה LORD |
| עַל־ | ‘al- | in front of | H5921 עַל upon |
| פָּנָיו֮ | pā·nāw | [Moses] | H6440 פָּנֶה face: before |
| וַיִּקְרָא֒ | way·yiq·rā | and called out | H7121 קָרָא to call: call to |
| יְהוָ֣ה׀ | Yah·weh | The LORD | H3068 יְהֹוָה LORD |
| יְהוָ֔ה | Yah·weh | the LORD | H3068 יְהֹוָה LORD |
| אֵ֥ל | ’êl | God | H410 אֵל God |
| רַח֖וּם | ra·ḥūm | is compassionate | H7349 רַחוּם compassionate |
| וְחַנּ֑וּן | wə·ḥan·nūn | and gracious | H2587 חַנּוּן gracious |
| אֶ֥רֶךְ | ’e·reḵ | slow | H750 אָרֵךְ slow |
| אַפַּ֖יִם | ’ap·pa·yim | to anger | H639 אַף face: anger |
| וְרַב־ | wə·raḇ- | abounding | H7227 רַב many |
| חֶ֥סֶד | ḥe·seḏ | in loving devotion | H2617 חֶ֫סֶד kindness |
| וֶאֱמֶֽת׀ | wɛ·ʾɛ̆·mɛṯ | and faithfulness | H571 אֱמֶת truth: faithful |
Related verses
- Psalm 86:15
But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.
- Joel 2:13
Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.
- Psalm 103:8–13
Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness. He will not always accuse; neither will he stay angry forever. He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us for our iniquities. …
- Psalm 145:8
Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.
- Nehemiah 9:17
and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them.
- Jonah 4:2
He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.
- Numbers 14:17–19
Now please let the power of the Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying, ‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’ Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and just as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”
- Psalm 86:5
For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
- 2 Chronicles 30:9
For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children will find compassion before those who led them captive, and will come again into this land, because Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”
- Micah 7:18
Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
4 He chiseled two tablets of stone like the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as Yahweh had commanded him, and took in his hand two stone tablets.
5 Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed Yahweh’s name.
6 Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
7 keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”
8 Moses hurried and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.
Read all of Exodus 34 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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