^{10 Ref} But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of Jehovah appeared in the tent of meeting unto all the children of Israel.

^{11 Ref} And Jehovah said unto Moses, How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have wrought among them?

^{12 Ref} I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.

^{13 Ref} And Moses said unto Jehovah, Then the Egyptians will hear it; for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;

^{14 Ref} and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that thou Jehovah art in the midst of this people; for thou Jehovah art seen face to face, and thy cloud standeth over them, and thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.

^{15 Ref} Now if thou shalt kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,

^{16 Ref} Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

^{17 Ref} And now, I pray thee, let the power of the Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,

^{18 Ref} Jehovah is slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; and that will by no means clear `the guilty', visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.

^{19 Ref} Pardon, I pray thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy lovingkindness, and according as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.

^{20 Ref} And Jehovah said, I have pardoned according to thy word:

^{21 Ref} but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Jehovah;

^{22 Ref} because all those men that have seen my glory, and my signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

^{23 Ref} surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised me see it: