Numbers 14:11–20

¹¹And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people ^rprovoke me? and how long will it be ere they ^sbelieve me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them? ¹²I will smite them with the pestilence, and ^tdisinherit them, and ^uwill make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they. ¹³And ^wMoses said unto the Lord, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;) ¹⁴and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for ^xthey have heard that thou Lord art among this people, that thou Lord art seen face to face, and that ^ythy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night. ¹⁵Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying, ¹⁶Because the Lord was not ^zable to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness. ¹⁷And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying, ¹⁸The Lord is ^alongsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, ^bvisiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation. ^19cPardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people ^daccording unto the greatness of thy mercy, and ^eas thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now. ²⁰And the Lord said, I have pardoned ^faccording to thy word: