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Numbers 14:17

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  1. Numbers 14:15

    Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,

  2. Numbers 14:16

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

  3. Numbers 14:18

    The Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.

  4. Numbers 14:19

    Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.