16 ‘Because Adonai was unable to bring this people to the land He had promised them, He has slaughtered them in the wilderness.’
17 “So please, let Adonai show His strength, just as You have spoken saying,
18 ‘Adonai is slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Still, He does not leave the guilty unpunished, bringing the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations.’
19 Forgive now the guiltiness of this people in accordance with the greatness of Your lovingkindness, just as You have pardoned this people from Egypt until now!”
20 Adonai answered, “I have forgiven them just as you have spoken.
21 But as certainly as I live and as certainly as the glory of Adonai fills the entire earth,
22 none of the people who saw My glory and My miraculous signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet tested Me these ten times and did not obey My Voice—