Numbers 14:12-19

12I will strike them with 12plague and dispossess them, and I 3will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they.”

134But 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 5You, 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 6all at once, 7then the nations who have heard of Your fame will 8say, 16‘Since the Lord 9could 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‘10The Lord is slow to anger and abundant in mercy, forgiving wrongdoing and violation of His Law; but 11He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, 12inflicting the 13punishment of the fathers on the children 14to the third and the fourth generations.’ 19Please 15forgive 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.”