Numbers 14:15-19

¹⁵If you kill these people all at one time, the people-groups who have heard about your power will say,

¹⁶‘Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land that he promised to give to them, so he killed them in the desert.’

¹⁷So Yahweh, now show that you are very powerful. You said,

¹⁸‘I do not quickly become angry; instead, I love people very much, and I forgive people for having sinned and having disobeyed my laws. But I will always punish LIT people who are guilty of doing what is wrong. When parents sin, I will punish them, but I will also punish their children and their grandchildren and their great-grandchildren and their great-great-grandchildren.’

¹⁹So, because you love people like that, forgive these people for the sins that they have committed, just like you have continued to forgive them ever since they left Egypt.”