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.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 14:10 This is the condition of them that would persuade in God’s cause, to be persecuted of the multitude.
  2. Numbers 14:14 Hebrew, eye to eye.
  3. Numbers 14:15 So that none shall escape.

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