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Now if you shall kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,
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Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.
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Now please let the power of the Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying,
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Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.
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Pardon, Please, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your lovingkindness, and according as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
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Yahweh said, I have pardoned according to your word:
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but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Yahweh;
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because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
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surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it:
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but my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him will I bring into the land into which he went; and his seed shall possess it.