Exodus 20:6

6. Showing mercy Or, doing kindness . His lovingkindness and favour are never withheld from the good and obedient .

Unto thousands Some would understand generations here, as after third and fourth in the previous verse . So superabundant is Jehovah’s kindness that he gladly will extend it to the thousandth generation of them that love him and keep his commandments. The expression, however, is best understood as general in its fulness of meaning . His kindness toward the loving and obedient is for all and for ever . Comp . Exodus 34:6-7.