rsv Numbers:14:11-20 SEEK
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And the LORD said to Moses , "
How long will this people despise me ?
And how long will they not believe in me ,
in spite of all the signs which I have wrought among them ?
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I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them ,
and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they ."
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But Moses said to the LORD , "
Then the Egyptians will hear of it ,
for thou didst bring up this people in thy might from among them ,
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and they will tell the inhabitants of this land .
They have heard that thou ,
O LORD ,
art in the midst of this people ;
for thou ,
O LORD ,
art seen face to face ,
and thy cloud stands over them and thou goest before them ,
in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night .
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Now if thou dost kill this people as one man ,
then the nations who have heard thy fame will say ,
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Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to give to them ,
therefore he has slain them in the wilderness .'
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And now ,
I pray thee ,
let the power of the LORD be great as thou hast promised ,
saying ,
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The LORD is slow to anger ,
and abounding in steadfast love ,
forgiving iniquity and transgression ,
but he will by no means clear the guilty ,
visiting the iniquity of fathers upon children ,
upon the third and upon the fourth generation .'
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Pardon the iniquity of this people ,
I pray thee ,
according to the greatness of thy steadfast love ,
and according as thou hast forgiven this people ,
from Egypt even until now ."
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Then the LORD said , "
I have pardoned ,
according to your word ;