Numbers 14:13-23

¹³And Moses said to the Lord, So Egypt shall hear, for thou hast brought up this people from them by thy might.

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

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

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

¹⁷And now, O Lord, let thy strength be exalted, as thou spokest, saying,

¹⁸The Lord is long-suffering 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 thy great mercy, as thou wast favorable to them from Egypt until now.

²⁰And the Lord said to Moses, I am gracious to them according to thy 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 hearkened to my voice,

²³surely they shall not see the land, which I swore 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.