7. They spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land.
8. If Yahweh 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 don’t rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Don’t fear them.”
10. But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones. Yahweh’s glory appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel.
11. Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?
12. I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”
13. Moses said to Yahweh, “Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them.
14. They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Yahweh are in the middle of this people; for you Yahweh are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.
15. Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,
16. ‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.’
17. Now please let the power of the Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying,
18. ‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’
19. Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and according as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”
20. Yahweh said, “I have pardoned according to your word:
21. but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with Yahweh’s glory;