14. then they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, Lord, are among this people, that you, Lord, are seen face to face, that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night.
15. If you kill this entire people at once, then the nations that have heard of your fame will say,
16. ‘Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to them, he killed them in the wilderness.’
17. So now, let the power of my Lord be great, just as you have said,
18. ‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in loyal love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children until the third and fourth generations.’
19. Please forgive the iniquity of this people according to your great loyal love, just as you have forgiven this people from Egypt even until now.”
20. Then the Lord said, “I have forgiven them as you asked.
21. But truly, as I live, all the earth will be filled with the glory of the Lord.
22. For all the people have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now these ten times, and have not obeyed me,
23. they will by no means see the land that I swore to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it.
24. Only my servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit and has followed me fully – I will bring him into the land where he had gone, and his descendants will possess it.
25. (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites were living in the valleys.) Tomorrow, turn and journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.”
26. The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron: