Exodus 32:12 References
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"Why should athe Egyptians speak, saying, 'With evil intent He brought them out to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth'? Turn from Your burning anger and change Your mind about doing harm to Your people.
a Numbers 14:13-19, Deuteronomy 9:28, Joshua 7:9
Numbers 14
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aBut Moses said to the Lord, "Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought up this people from their midst,
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and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, O Lord, are in the midst of this people, for aYou, O 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.
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'Because the Lord acould not bring this people into the land which He promised them by oath, therefore He slaughtered them in the wilderness.'
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"But now, I pray, let the power of the Lord be great, just as You have declared,
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'aThe Lord is slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but bHe will by no means clear the guilty, cvisiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generations.'
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"aPardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of Your lovingkindness, just as You also have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now."
Deuteronomy 9
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'Otherwise the land from which You brought us may say, "aBecause the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which He had promised them and because He hated them He has brought them out to slay them in the wilderness."