Numbers 14
11 Ref And the Lord said to Moses, How long will this people have no respect for me? how long will they be without faith, in the face of all the signs I have done among them?
12 Ref I will send disease on them for their destruction, and take away their heritage, and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.
13 Ref And Moses said to the Lord, Then it will come to the ears of the Egyptians; for by your power you took this people out from among them;
14 Ref And they will give the news to the people of this land: they have had word that you, Lord, are present with this people, letting yourself be seen face to face, and that your cloud is resting over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.
15 Ref Now if you put to death all this people as one man, then the nations who have had word of your glory will say,
16 Ref Because the Lord was not able to take this people into the land which he made an oath to give them, he sent destruction on them in the waste land.
17 Ref So now, may my prayer come before you, and let the power of the Lord be great, as you said:
18 Ref The Lord is slow to wrath and great in mercy, overlooking wrongdoing and evil, and will not let wrongdoers go free; sending punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation.
19 Ref May the sin of this people have forgiveness, in the measure of your great mercy, as you have had mercy on them from Egypt up till now.
