15. Now if thou shalt kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
16. Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
17. And now, I pray thee, let the power of the Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
18. Jehovah is slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; and that will by no means clear
19. Pardon, I pray thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy lovingkindness, and according as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
20. And Jehovah said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
21. but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Jehovah;
22. because all those men that have seen my glory, and my signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
23. surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised me see it: