Numbers 14:13–21 · BSB
14:13
But Moses said to the LORD, “The Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought this people from among them.
14:14
And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have already heard that You, O LORD, are in the midst of this people, that You, O LORD, have been seen face to face, that Your cloud stands over them, and that You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.
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14:15
If You kill this people as one man, the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,
14:16
‘Because the LORD was unable to bring this people into the land He swore to give them, He has slaughtered them in the wilderness.’
14:17
So now I pray, may the power of my Lord be magnified, just as You have declared:
14:18
‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.’
14:19
Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people, in keeping with the greatness of Your loving devotion, just as You have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt.”
14:20
“I have pardoned them as you requested,” the LORD replied.
14:21
“Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD,
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