¹¹The Lord said to Moses, “How long will these people treat me with contempt?^c How long will they refuse to believe in me,^d in spite of all the signs^e I have performed among them? ¹²I will strike them down with a plague^f and destroy them, but I will make you into a nation^g greater and stronger than they.”^h

¹³Moses said to the Lord, “Then the Egyptians will hear about it! By your power you brought these people up from among them.ⁱ ¹⁴And they will tell the inhabitants of this land about it. They have already heard^j that you, Lord, are with these people^k and that you, Lord, have been seen face to face,^l that your cloud stays over them,^m and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.ⁿ ¹⁵If you put all these people to death, leaving none alive, the nations who have heard this report about you will say, ¹⁶‘The Lord was not able to bring these people into the land he promised them on oath,^o so he slaughtered them in the wilderness.’^p

¹⁷“Now may the Lord’s strength be displayed, just as you have declared: ¹⁸‘The Lord is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion.^q Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.’^r ¹⁹In accordance with your great love, forgive^s the sin of these people,^t just as you have pardoned them from the time they left Egypt until now.”^u

²⁰The Lord replied, “I have forgiven them,^v as you asked.

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Cross references

c Ex 23:21; Nu 15:31; 16:30; 1 Sa 2:17; Eze 31:14; Mal 1:13
d Dt 1:32; Ps 78:22; 106:24; Jn 3:15
eSee Ex 3:20; See 4:17; See 10:1
fSee Ex 5:3; See 30:12
gSee Ex 32:10
h Dt 9:14; 29:20; 32:26; Ps 109:13
i Ex 32:11–14; Ps 106:23
j Ex 15:14
k Nu 5:3; 16:3; Jos 2:9
l Dt 5:4; 34:10
mSee Ex 33:16
nSee Ex 13:21
o Nu 11:12
p Ex 32:12; Jos 7:7
qSee Ex 20:6; 34:6; Ps 145:8; Jnh 4:2; Jas 5:11
r Ex 20:5
sSee Ex 34:9; 1 Ki 8:34; Ps 85:2; 103:3
t Ps 106:45
u Ps 78:38
v Ex 34:6; Ps 99:8; 106:23; Mic 7:18–20