The Bible is written by many different authors over hundreds of years.

And so one way that it stays connected as one unified story is through repetition.

Biblical authors love to quote each other and to adapt these quotes into new contexts

building on them and giving them continued life.

This happens constantly.

But there are two verses in the Hebrew Scriptures that get quoted and adapted more than any other.

It's kind of like, you know how John 316, forgot to love the world, gave us one moment

of sin.

It's like the most quotable verse, at least in American Christianity, some forms.

It says if these two verses, Exodus 34, 6 and 7 were the John 316 of ancient Israel,

they just, they come up so much as you read throughout the rest of the Bible.

The most quoted verse by biblical authors in the Bible is Exodus 34 verses 6 and 7.

And it reads, Yahweh Yahweh, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding and

loyal love and faithfulness, maintaining love for thousands, forgiving wickedness, rebellion

and sin, yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished.

He punishes the children and their children for the sins of their parents to the third and

fourth generation.

We're going to start an entire series, walking through these verses and looking at the

key vocabulary.

But in this episode, we want to lay some groundwork.

In particular, we want to look at this tension that pops in this verse, how it starts with

such a lovely and caring picture of God, gracious, slow to anger, abounding with loyal love.

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