However, the Lord said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will wipe him out of My book.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
- KJV And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath 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.
- 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 who sins, he shall die.
- Deut 29:20Yahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.
- Rev 20:12I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.
- Ps 69:28Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.
- Lev 23:30Whoever it is who does any kind of work in that same day, that person I will destroy from among his people.
- Ps 9:5You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever.
- Phil 4:3Yes, I beg you also, true partner, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.
- Rev 13:8All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.
- Ps 109:13–14Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
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