Exodus 34:6
Hebrew Bible
5 The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the Lord by name. 6 The Lord passed by before him and proclaimed: “The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, and abounding in loyal love and faithfulness, 7 keeping loyal love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin. But he by no means leaves the guilty unpunished, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children and children’s children, to the third and fourth generation.” 8 Moses quickly bowed to the ground and worshiped 9 and said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, let my Lord go among us, for we are a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”
Date: 5th Century B.C.E. (Final composition) (based on scholarly estimates)
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Baruch 2:27
Deuterocanon
26 And the house that is called by your name you have made as it is today, because of the wickedness of the house of Israel and the house of Judah. 27 Yet you have dealt with us, O Lord our God, in all your kindness and in all your great compassion, 28 as you spoke by your servant Moses on the day when you commanded him to write your law in the presence of the people of Israel, saying,
Date: 150-100 B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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"... Exodus 34:6–7 influenced the Hebrew Bible profoundly, and resemblances are found in many post-Biblical Jewish texts. (See: Wisdom of Solomon 15:1, Sirach 2:10-11, 5:5, 50:19, Baruch 2:27, 2 Baruch 77:7, etc...) It would not be surprising, then, if the New Testament follows this trajectory. While many words (and their synonyms) from YHWH’s revelation appear throughout the New Testament, it contains no extended quotations. Nevertheless, the texts with these lexical links may unconsciously allude to theologically loaded words in Exodus 34:6–7 ..."
Surls, Austin
Making Sense of the Divine Name in the Book of Exodus: From Etymology to Literary Onomastics
(pp. 194-195) Eisenbrauns, 2017
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