15. Now if you kill all your people, the nations who have heard of your fame will say
16. that you killed your people in the wilderness because you were not able to bring them into the land you promised to give them.
17. So now Lord, I pray, show us your power and do what you promised when you said,
18. ‘I, the Lord, am not easily angered, and I show great love and faithfulness and forgive sin and rebellion. Yet I will not fail to punish children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation for the sins of their parents.’
19. And now, Lord, according to the greatness of your unchanging love, forgive, I pray, the sin of these people, just as you have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt.”