15. Now if You kill these people as one man, then the nations which have heard of Your fame will speak, saying,
16. ‘Because the Lord was not able to bring this people to the land which He swore to give them, therefore He killed them in the wilderness.’
17. And now, I pray, let the power of my Lord be great, just as You have spoken, saying,
18. ‘The Lord is longsuffering and abundant in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He by no means clears the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.’
19. Pardon the iniquity of this people, I pray, according to the greatness of Your mercy, just as You have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”
20. Then the Lord said: “I have pardoned, according to your word;
21. but truly, as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord—
22. because all these men who have seen My glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have put Me to the test now these ten times, and have not heeded My voice,
23. they certainly shall not see the land of which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who rejected Me see it.
24. But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it.
25. Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valley; tomorrow turn and move out into the wilderness by the Way of the Red Sea.”
26. And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,