Numbers 14:16

12I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”

13Moses said to the LORD, “Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them.

14They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you LORD are among this people; for you LORD are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.

15Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,

16‘Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.’

17Now please let the power of the Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying,

18‘The LORD is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’

19Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and just as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”

20The LORD said, “I have pardoned according to your word;