15Now if you shall kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,
16Because Yahweh 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,
18Yahweh 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.
19Pardon, 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.
20Yahweh said, I have pardoned according to your word:
21but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Yahweh;