Exodus 34:8

Then Moses made haste,—and bent his head towards the earth and bowed himself down;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.

In Context

7Keeping lovingkindness to a thousand generations, Forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, Though he leave not, utterly unpunished, Visiting the iniquity of fathers, Upon sons, And upon sons’ sons, Unto a third and unto a fourth generation.

9and said—If, I pray thee, I have found favour in thine eyes, O My Lord, I pray thee let My Lord go on in our midst,—although a stiff-necked people, it is, so wilt thou pardon our iniquity and our sin and take us as thine own.

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Cross References

Genesis 17:3And Abram fell on his face,—and God spake with him, saying:

Exodus 4:31And the people believed,—and when they heard that Yahweh had concerned himself for the sons of Israel, and that he had looked upon their humiliation, then bent they their heads and bowed themselves down.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 34:6-10

5 And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord . 6 And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord , The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. 8 And… Read the whole commentary →

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