Thomson(i)
11 And the Lord said to Moses, How long shall this people provoke me? And how long will they disbelieve me, notwithstanding all the miracles which I have done among them?
12 Let me smite them with pestilence and destroy them, and I will make thee and the house of thy father a great nation and much more numerous than this.
13 Thereupon Moses said to the Lord, Though Egypt may publish that thou by thy mighty power didst bring this people out from among them;
14 Nay though all the inhabitants of this land have heard that thou the Lord art among this people; that they with their eyes may behold thee, Lord, exposed to view; and that thy cloud hath stood over them, and that thou marchest before them in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night;
15 yet when thou shalt destroy this people as one man, then will all the nations who have heard of thy name speak, saying,
16 Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which, with an oath, he promised them, he hath destroyed them in the wilderness.
17 Now therefore let thy power, Lord, be exalted. As thou hast spoken, saying,
18 "The Lord is long suffering, abundant in mercy and true, taking away iniquities, transgressions and sins; and, when he will not by purification clear the guilty, retributing the sins of fathers on children to the third and fourth generation,"
19 forgive the sin of this people according to thy great mercy, as thou hast been gracious to them from Egypt even to this time.
20 Then the Lord said to Moses, I am merciful to them according to thy word.