Numbers 14:13–19

¹³And ^rMoses said to the Lord: ^s“Then the Egyptians will hear it, for by Your might You brought these people up from among them, ¹⁴and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have ^theard that You, Lord, are among these people; that You, Lord, are seen face to face and Your cloud stands above them, and You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night. ¹⁵Now if You kill these people as one man, then the nations which have heard of Your fame will speak, saying, ¹⁶‘Because the Lord was not ^uable to bring this people to the land which He swore to give them, therefore He killed them in the wilderness.’ ¹⁷And now, I pray, let the power of my Lord be great, just as You have spoken, saying, ^18v‘The Lord is longsuffering and abundant in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He by no means clears the guilty, ^wvisiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.’ ^19xPardon the iniquity of this people, I pray, ^yaccording to the greatness of Your mercy, just ^zas You have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”