Numbers 14:12-28

¹²I will strike them with death, and destroy them; and I will make of you and of your father's house a great nation, and much greater than this.

¹³And Moses said to the Lord, So Egypt shall hear, for you have brought up this people from them by your might.

¹⁴Moreover all the dwellers upon this land have heard that you are Lord in the midst of this people, who, O Lord, are seen by them face to face, and your cloud rests upon them, and you go before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire.

¹⁵And if you shall destroy this nation as one man; then all the nations that have heard your name shall speak, saying,

¹⁶Because the Lord could not bring this people into the land which he sware to them, he has overthrown them in the wilderness.

¹⁷And now, O Lord, let your strength be exalted, as you spoke, saying,

¹⁸The Lord is longsuffering and merciful, and true, removing transgressions and iniquities and sins, and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation.

¹⁹Forgive this people their sin according to your great mercy, as you were favourable to them from Egypt until now.

²⁰And the Lord said to Moses, I am gracious to them according to your word.

²¹But as I live and my name is living, so the glory of the Lord shall fill all the earth.

²²For all the men who see my glory, and the signs which I wrought in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me this tenth time, and have not listened to my voice,

²³surely they shall not see the land, which I sware to their fathers; but their children which are with me here, as many as know not good or evil, every inexperienced youth, to them will I give the land; but none who have provoked me shall see it.

²⁴But my servant Chaleb, because there was another spirit in him, and he followed me, I will bring him into the land into which he entered, and his seed shall inherit it.

²⁵But Amalec and the Chananite dwell in the valley: to-morrow turn and depart for the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.

²⁶And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

²⁷How long shall I endure this wicked congregation? I have heard their murmurings against me, even the murmuring of the children of Israel, which they have murmured concerning you.

²⁸Say to them, As I live, says the Lord: surely as you° spoke into my ears, so will I do to you.