17. And now, I beseech thee, let the power of the Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
18. Jehovah is slow to anger, and abundant in goodness, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and fourth generation.
19. Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of thy loving-kindness, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
20. And Jehovah said, I have pardoned according to thy word.
21. But as surely as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Jehovah!
22. for all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice,
23. shall in no wise see the land which I did swear unto their fathers: none of them that despised me shall see it.
24. But my servant Caleb, because he hath another spirit in him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he came; and his seed shall possess it.
25. (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valley.) To-morrow turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness, on the way to the Red sea.
26. And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,