Numbers 14:14-25 Nay though all the inhabitants of this land have heard that thou the Lord art among this people; that they with their eyes may behold thee, Lord, exposed to view; and that thy cloud hath stood over them, and that thou marchest before them in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night;

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁴ Nay though all the inhabitants of this land have heard that thou the Lord art among this people; that they with their eyes may behold thee, Lord, exposed to view; and that thy cloud hath stood over them, and that thou marchest before them in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night; ¹⁵ yet when thou shalt destroy this people as one man, then will all the nations who have heard of thy name speak, saying, ¹⁶ Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which, with an oath, he promised them, he hath destroyed them in the wilderness. ¹⁷ Now therefore let thy power, Lord, be exalted. As thou hast spoken, saying, ¹⁸ "The Lord is long suffering, abundant in mercy and true, taking away iniquities, transgressions and sins; and, when he will not by purification clear the guilty, retributing the sins of fathers on children to the third and fourth generation," ¹⁹ forgive the sin of this people according to thy great mercy, as thou hast been gracious to them from Egypt even to this time. ²⁰ Then the Lord said to Moses, I am merciful to them according to thy word. ²¹ But as I live, and my name liveth, and the glory of the Lord shall fill the whole earth; ²² because all these men, who have seen my glory, and the wonders which I have done in Egypt, and in this wilderness, have actually tempted me now the tenth time, and have not hearkened to my voice, ²³ they indeed shall not see the land which I, with an oath, promised their fathers. But with regard to their children who are here with me; as many as have not known good or evil; every one who is too young to be taught by experience, to them I will give the land. As for all them who have provoked me, they shall not see it; ²⁴ But with regard to my servant Chaleb, because there was a different spirit in him, and he followed me, him I will bring into the land to which he went, and his seed shall inherit it. ²⁵ Now the Amalekites and the Chananites dwell in that valley, turn therefore to-morrow, and remove into the wilderness by the way to the Red sea.