Numbers 14:13-19

New King James Version

¹³ And ^(A)Moses said to the Lord: ^(B)“Then the Egyptians will hear it, for by Your might You brought these people up from among them, ¹⁴ and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have ^(C)heard 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. ¹⁵ Now 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 ^(D)able to bring this people to the land which He swore to give them, therefore He killed them in the wilderness.’ ¹⁷ And now, I pray, let the power of my Lord be great, just as You have spoken, saying, ^18 (E)‘The Lord is longsuffering and abundant in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He by no means clears the guilty, ^(F)visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.’ ^19 (G)Pardon the iniquity of this people, I pray, ^(H)according to the greatness of Your mercy, just ^(I)as You have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”