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13 But Moses said to the LORD, "What if the Egyptians hear about it? (You used your power to take these people away from them.)
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Moses said to the LORD, “Then the Egyptians will hear about it! By your power you brought these people up from among them.
14 What if the Egyptians tell the people who live in this land? LORD, they have already heard that you are with these people, that they have seen you with their own eyes, that your column of smoke stays over them, and that you go ahead of them in a column of smoke by day and in a column of fire by night.
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And they will tell the inhabitants of this land about it. They have already heard that you, LORD, are with these people and that you, LORD, have been seen face to face, that your cloud stays over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.
15 But if you kill all these people at the same time, then the nations who have heard these reports about you will say,
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If you put all these people to death, leaving none alive, the nations who have heard this report about you will say,
16 'The LORD wasn't able to bring these people into the land he promised them, so he slaughtered them in the desert.'
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‘The LORD was not able to bring these people into the land he promised them on oath, so he slaughtered them in the wilderness.’
17 "Lord, let your power be as great as when you said,
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“Now may the Lord’s strength be displayed, just as you have declared:
18 'The LORD...patient, forever loving....He forgives wrongdoing and disobedience....He never lets the guilty go unpunished, punishing children...for their parents' sins to the third and fourth generation....'
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‘The LORD is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.’
19 By your great love, please forgive these people's sins, as you have been forgiving them from the time they left Egypt until now."
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In accordance with your great love, forgive the sin of these people, just as you have pardoned them from the time they left Egypt until now.”
20 The LORD said, "I forgive them, as you have asked.
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The LORD replied, “I have forgiven them, as you asked.
21 But as I live and as the glory of the LORD fills the whole earth, I solemnly swear that
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Nevertheless, as surely as I live and as surely as the glory of the LORD fills the whole earth,
22 none of the people who saw my glory and the miraculous signs I did in Egypt and in the desert will see the land which I promised their ancestors. They have tested me now ten times and refused to obey me.
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not one of those who saw my glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness but who disobeyed me and tested me ten times—
23 None of those who treat me with contempt will see it!
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not one of them will ever see the land I promised on oath to their ancestors. No one who has treated me with contempt will ever see it.
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