15. “Now if You shall kill these people as one man, then the nations which have heard of Your report shall speak, saying,
16. ‘Because יהוה 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 יהוה be great, as You have spoken, saying,
18. ‘יהוה is patient and of great kindness, forgiving crookedness and transgression, but by no means leaving unpunished; visiting the crookedness of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.’
19. “Please forgive the crookedness of this people, according to the greatness of Your kindness, as You have forgiven this people, from Mitsrayim even until now.”
20. And יהוה said, “I shall forgive, according to your word,
21. but truly, as I live and all the earth is filled with the esteem of יהוה,
22. for none of these men who have seen My esteem and the signs which I did in Mitsrayim and in the wilderness, and have tried Me now these ten times, and have disobeyed My voice,