Numbers 14:13-19

Leeser(i) 13 And Moses said unto the Lord, But when the Egyptian hear, from the midst of whom thou hast brought up in thy might this people;— 14 And when they tell to the inhabitants of this land, who have heard that thou, Lord, art in the midst of this people, that face to face thou, Lord, art seen, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that in a pillar of cloud thou goest before them by day, and in a pillar of fire by night;— 15 That thou hast killed this people as one man: then will the nations that have heard thy fame, say in this manner, 16 That because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he had sworn unto them, hath he slain them in the wilderness. 17 And now, I beseech thee, let the greatness of the power of the Lord be made manifest, as thou hast spoken, saying, 18 The Eternal is long-suffering, and abundant in beneficence, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but who 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 Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of thy beneficence, and as thou hast been indulgent to this people, from Egypt even until hitherto.