Numbers 14:11-20
Moses Pleads for the People
11 aThe Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people spurn Me? And how long will bthey not believe in Me, despite all the signs which I have performed in their midst? 12“I will smite them with ▼▼ Lit the pestilence
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dpestilence and dispossess them, and I ewill make you into a nation greater and mightier than they.” 13 fBut Moses said to the Lord, “Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought up this people from their midst, 14and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, O Lord, are in the midst of this people, for gYou, O Lord, are seen eye to eye, while Your cloud stands over them; and You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night. 15“Now if You slay this people as one man, hthen the nations who have heard of Your fame will ▼▼ Lit speak, saying
say, 16‘Because the Lord jcould not bring this people into the land which He promised them by oath, therefore He slaughtered them in the wilderness.’ 17“But now, I pray, let the power of the Lord be great, just as You have ▼▼ Lit spoken, saying
declared, 18‘ lThe Lord is slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but mHe will by no means clear the guilty, nvisiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children ▼▼ Lit on
to the third and the fourth generations.’ 19 p“Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of Your lovingkindness, just as You also have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.” The Lord Pardons and Rebukes
20So the Lord said, q“I have pardoned them according to your word;
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