And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
- BSB The LORD replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot out of My book.
- NKJV And the Lord said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him out of My book.
- NASB However, the Lord said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will wipe him out of My book.
- NLT But the Lord replied to Moses, “No, I will erase the name of everyone who has sinned against me.
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Quick answer
God replies that each person is accountable for their own sin and will be blotted out for it. Justice deals with sinners individually.
Overview
God will not let Moses substitute himself, affirming that each one bears responsibility for personal guilt. This upholds the principle of individual accountability before God. It also magnifies the wonder of the gospel, where the sinless Christ alone is qualified and willing to bear the guilt of others.
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Cross-references · 9
- Ezek 18:4Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
- Deut 29:20The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.
- Rev 20:12And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
- Ps 69:28Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
- Lev 23:30And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
- Ps 9:5Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
- Phil 4:3And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.
- Rev 13:8And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
- Ps 109:13–14Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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