Numbers 14:18

Numbers 14:18 in 10 English translations. Each links through to the full chapter for context.

New International Version (NIV)

18‘The Lord is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.’

Read Numbers 14 in NIV · About the NIV

New American Standard Bible - NASB (NASB2020)

18‘The Lord is slow to anger and abundant in mercy, forgiving wrongdoing and violation of His Law; but He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, inflicting the punishment of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generations.

Read Numbers 14 in NASB2020 · About the NASB2020

Amplified Bible (AMP)

18‘The Lord is slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving wickedness and transgression; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting (avenging) the wickedness and guilt of the fathers on the children, to the third and fourth generations [that is, calling the children to account for the sins of their fathers].’ [Ex 34:6, 7]

Read Numbers 14 in AMP · About the AMP

Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

18‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.’

Read Numbers 14 in BSB · About the BSB

American Standard Version (ASV)

18Jehovah is slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.

Read Numbers 14 in ASV · About the ASV

Geneva Bible (GNV)

18The Lord is slowe to anger, and of great mercie, and forgiuing iniquitie, and sinne, but not making the wicked innocent, and visiting the wickednes of the fathers vpon the children, in the thirde and fourth generation:

Read Numbers 14 in GNV · About the GNV

World English Bible, American English Edition, without Strong's Numbers (WEBUS)

18‘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.’

Read Numbers 14 in WEBUS · About the WEBUS

New International Reader’s Version (NIrV)

18‘I am the Lord. I am slow to get angry. I am full of love. I forgive those who sin. I forgive those who refuse to obey. But I do not let guilty people go without punishing them. I cause the sin of the parents to affect their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.’

Read Numbers 14 in NIrV · About the NIrV

EasyEnglish Bible 2024 (EASY)

18“The Lord does not quickly become angry. His faithful love for his people continues for ever. He forgives people when they turn against him and they do bad things. But if someone is guilty, he surely punishes them. And he punishes their children, their grandchildren and their grandchildren's children.”

Read Numbers 14 in EASY · About the EASY

Literal Standard Version (LSV)

18YHWH [is] slow to anger and of great kindness, bearing away iniquity and transgression, and not entirely acquitting, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on a third and on a fourth [generation]—

Read Numbers 14 in LSV · About the LSV