16. ‘Because the Lord 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. ‘The Lord is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and he 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 just as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”
20. The Lord 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 the Lord’s glory—