8. If the LORD delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.
9. Only rebel not against the LORD, neither fear you the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
10. But all the congregation said to stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of meeting before all the children of Israel.
11. And the LORD said unto Moses,
12. I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a greater nation and mightier than they.
13. And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for you brought up this people in your might from among them;)
14. And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that you LORD are among this people, that you LORD are seen face to face, and that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them, by daytime in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
15. Now if you shall kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,
16. Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to give unto them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.
17. And now, I beseech you, let the power of my LORD be great, according as you have spoken, saying,
18. The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
19. Pardon, I beseech you, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of your mercy, and as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.