^{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.

^{20 Ref} And the Lord said, I have had mercy, as you say:

^{21 Ref} But truly, as I am living, and as all the earth will be full of the glory of the Lord;

^{22 Ref} Because all these men, having seen my glory and the signs which I have done in Egypt and in the waste land, still have put me to the test ten times, and have not given ear to my voice;

^{23 Ref} They will not see the land about which I made an oath to their fathers; not one of these by whom I have not been honoured will see it.

^{24 Ref} But my servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit in him, and has been true to me with all his heart, him I will take into that land into which he went, and his seed will have it for their heritage.