¹⁰ And all the multitude said, ^[a]Stone them with stones: but the glory of the Lord appeared in the Tabernacle of the Congregation before all the children of Israel.

¹¹ And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me, and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have showed among them?

¹² I will smite them with the pestilence and destroy them, and will make thee a greater nation and mightier than they.

¹³ But Moses said unto the Lord, ^(A)When the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest this people by thy power from among them)

¹⁴ Then they shall say to the inhabitants of the land, (for they have heard, that thou Lord, art among this people, and that thou, Lord, art seen ^[b]face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou ^(B)goest before them, by daytime in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.)

¹⁵ That thou wilt kill this people as ^[c]one man: so the heathen which have heard the fame of thee, shall thus say,

¹⁶ Because the Lord was not ^(C)able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore hath he slain them in the wilderness.

¹⁷ And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,

¹⁸ The Lord is ^(D)slow to anger, and of great mercy, and ^(E)forgiving iniquity and sin, but not making the wicked innocent, and ^(F)visiting the wickedness of the fathers upon the children, in the third and fourth generation:

¹⁹ Be merciful, I beseech thee, unto the iniquity of this people, according to thy great mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people from Egypt, even until now.