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But all the congregation said to stone them with stones. Then the glory of the LORD appeared in the tent of meeting to all the sons of Israel.

But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the Lord appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.

And the LORD said to Moses, "How long will this people be disrespectful to Me? And how long will they not believe in Me, despite all the signs that I have performed in their midst?

And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?

"I will strike them with plague and dispossess them, and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they."

I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.

But Moses said to the LORD, "Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought this people up from their midst,

And Moses said unto the Lord , Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)

and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, LORD, are in the midst of this people, because You, LORD, are seen eye to eye, while Your cloud stands over them; and You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.

And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou Lord art among this people, that thou Lord art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.

"Now if You put this people to death all at once, then the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,

Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,

'Since the LORD could not bring this people into the land which He promised them by oath, He slaughtered them in the wilderness.'

Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

"So now, please, let the power of the Lord be great, just as You have declared, saying,

And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,

'The LORD is slow to anger and abundant in mercy, forgiving wrongdoing and violation of His Law; but He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, inflicting the punishment of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generations.'

The Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.

"Please forgive the guilt of this people in accordance with the greatness of Your mercy, just as You also have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now."

Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.