12. Therefore, I will strike them with a pestilence, and so I will consume them. But you I will make the ruler over a great nation, and one which is mightier than this one."
13. And Moses said to the Lord: "But then the Egyptians, from whose midst you led out this people,
14. and the inhabitants of this land, who have heard that you, O Lord, are among this people, and that you are seen face to face, and that your cloud protects them, and that you go before them with a column of cloud by day, and a column of fire by night,
15. may hear that you have killed so great a multitude, as if they were one man, and they may say:
16. 'He was not able to lead the people into the land about which he had sworn. Therefore, he slew them in the wilderness.'
17. Therefore, may the strength of the Lord be magnified, just as you swore, saying:
18. 'The Lord is patient and full of mercy, taking away iniquity and wickedness, and forsaking no one who is harmless. He visits the sins of the fathers upon the sons, to the third and fourth generation.'
19. Forgive, I beg you, the sins of this people, according to the greatness of your mercy, just as you have been gracious to them in their journey from Egypt to this place."
20. And the Lord said: "I have forgiven them according to your word.
21. Also, as I live, the entire world shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.
22. And yet, all the men who have seen my majesty, and the signs that I have wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, and who have tested me ten times already, and yet have not obeyed my voice,
23. these shall not see the land, about which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who detracted me gaze upon it.
24. My servant Caleb, who, being full of another spirit, has followed me, I will lead into this land, through which he has wandered, and his offspring shall possess it.
25. For the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valleys. Tomorrow, move the camp and return into the wilderness, by the way of the Red Sea."