Numbers 14:15-18

Living Bible

¹⁵ Now if you kill all your people, the nations that have heard your fame will say, ¹⁶ ‘The Lord had to kill them because he wasn’t able to take care of them in the wilderness. He wasn’t strong enough to bring them into the land he swore he would give them.’

^17-18 “Oh, please, show the great power of your patience^[a] by forgiving our sins and showing us your steadfast love. Forgive us, even though you have said that you don’t let sin go unpunished, and that you punish the father’s fault in the children to the third and fourth generation.