Numbers 14:15-19

¹⁵That thou hast killed this people as one man: then will the nations that have heard thy fame, say in this manner,

¹⁶That because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he had sworn unto them, hath he slain them in the wilderness.

¹⁷And now, I beseech thee, let the greatness of the power of the Lord be made manifest, as thou hast spoken, saying,

¹⁸The Eternal is long-suffering, and abundant in beneficence, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.

¹⁹Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of thy beneficence, and as thou hast been indulgent to this people, from Egypt even until hitherto.