^{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:

^{24 Ref} but my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.