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13 Moses said to Jehovah: »You brought these people out of Egypt by your power. When the Egyptians hear what you have done to your people,
14 they will tell it to the people who live in this land. These people have already heard that you, Jehovah, are with us, that you appear in plain sight when your cloud stops over us, and that you go before us in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.
15 »But if you kill all these people at the same time the nations who have heard these reports about you will say,
16 »Jehovah was not able to bring these people into the land he promised them, so he slaughtered them in the desert.
17 »Jehovah, let your power be as great as when you said,
18 »Jehovah is patient, forever loving; He forgives wrongdoing and disobedience. He never lets the guilty go unpunished. In fact he punishes children for their parents’ sins to the third and fourth generation.
19 »By your great love, please forgive these people’s sins, as you have forgiven them from the time they left Egypt until now.«
20 Jehovah said: »I forgive them, as you have asked.
21 »But as I live and as the glory of Jehovah fills the whole earth, I solemnly swear that
22 none of the people who saw my glory and the miraculous signs I did in Egypt and in the desert will see the land I promised their ancestors. They have tested me now ten times and refused to obey me.
23 »None of those who treat me with contempt will see it!
24 »My servant Caleb has a different attitude and has wholeheartedly followed me, I will bring him to the land he already explored. His descendants will possess it.
25 »The Amalekites and Canaanites are living in the valleys. Tomorrow you must turn around, go back into the desert. Follow the road that goes to the Red Sea.«