Numbers 14:14-27

¹⁴And the inhabitants of this land, (who have heard that thou, O Lord, art among this people, and art seen face to face, and thy cloud protecteth them, and thou goest before them in a pillar of a cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night,)

¹⁵May hear that thou hast killed so great a multitude as it were one man and may say:

¹⁶He could not bring the people into the land for which he had sworn, therefore did he kill them in the wilderness.

¹⁷Let their the strength of the Lord be magnified, as thou hast sworn, saying:

¹⁸The Lord is patient and full of mercy, taking away iniquity and wickedness, and leaving no man clear, who visitest the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.

¹⁹Forgive, I beseech thee, the sins of this people, according to the greatness of thy mercy, as thou hast been merciful to them from their going out of Egypt unto this place.

²⁰And the Lord said: I have forgiven according to thy word.

²¹As I live: and the whole earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.

²²But yet all the men that have seen my majesty, and the signs that I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now ten times, and have not obeyed my voice,

²³Shall not see the land for which I aware to their fathers, neither shall any one of them that hath detracted me behold it.

²⁴My servant Caleb, who being full of another spirit hath followed me, I will bring into this land which he hath gone round: and his seed shall possess it.

²⁵For the Amalecite and the Chanaanite dwell in the valleys. Tomorrow remove the camp, and return into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.

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

²⁷How long doth this wicked multitude murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel.