Numbers 14:11-20

111And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people be disrespectful to Me? And how long will 2they not 3believe in Me, despite all the signs that I have performed in their midst? 12I will strike them with 45plague and dispossess them, and I 6will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they.”

137But Moses said to the Lord, “Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought this people up from their midst, 14and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, Lord, are in the midst of this people, because 8You, Lord, are seen eye to eye, while Your cloud stands over them; and You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night. 15Now if You put this people to death 9all at once, 10then the nations who have heard of Your fame will 11say, 16‘Since the Lord 12could not bring this people into the land which He promised them by oath, He slaughtered them in the wilderness.’ 17So now, please, let the power of the Lord be great, just as You have declared, saying, 18‘13The Lord is slow to anger and abundant in mercy, forgiving wrongdoing and violation of His Law; but 14He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, 15inflicting the 16punishment of the fathers on the children 17to the third and the fourth generations.’ 19Please 18forgive the guilt of this people in accordance with the greatness of Your mercy, just as You also have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”

20So the Lord said, “19I have forgiven them in accordance with your word;