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11 Jehovah said to Moses: »How much longer will these people reject me? How much longer will they refuse to trust in me, even though I have performed many miracles among them?
12 »I will send an epidemic and destroy them. I will make you the father of a nation that is larger and more powerful than they are!«
13 Moses said to Jehovah: »You brought these people out of Egypt by your power. When the Egyptians hear what you have done to your people,
14 they will tell it to the people who live in this land. These people have already heard that you, Jehovah, are with us, that you appear in plain sight when your cloud stops over us, and that you go before us in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.
15 »But if you kill all these people at the same time the nations who have heard these reports about you will say,
16 »Jehovah was not able to bring these people into the land he promised them, so he slaughtered them in the desert.
17 »Jehovah, let your power be as great as when you said,
18 »Jehovah is patient, forever loving; He forgives wrongdoing and disobedience. He never lets the guilty go unpunished. In fact he punishes children for their parents’ sins to the third and fourth generation.
19 »By your great love, please forgive these people’s sins, as you have forgiven them from the time they left Egypt until now.«
20 Jehovah said: »I forgive them, as you have asked.