5. Moses and Aaron fell on their faces in front of the entire community, gathered in emergency session.
17. “Now, please, let the power of the Master expand, enlarge itself greatly, along the lines you have laid out earlier when you said,
18. God, slow to get angry and huge in loyal love,forgiving iniquity and rebellion and sin;Still, never just whitewashing sin.But extending the fallout of parents’ sinsto children into the third,even the fourth generation.
19. “Please forgive the wrongdoing of this people out of the extravagance of your loyal love just as all along, from the time they left Egypt, you have been forgiving this people.”
24. “But my servant Caleb—this is a different story. He has a different spirit; he follows me passionately. I’ll bring him into the land that he scouted and his children will inherit it.
25. “Since the Amalekites and Canaanites are so well established in the valleys, for right now change course and head back into the wilderness following the route to the Red Sea.”