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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Tanach: Numbers 14: 12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and destroy them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.'
Numbers 14: 13 And Moses said unto the LORD: 'When the Egyptians shall hear--for Thou broughtest up this people in Thy might from among them--
Numbers 14: 14 they will say to the inhabitants of this land, who have heard that Thou LORD art in the midst of this people; inasmuch as Thou LORD art seen face to face, and Thy cloud standeth over them, and Thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night;
Numbers 14: 15 now if Thou shalt kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of Thee will speak, saying:
Numbers 14: 16 Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which He swore unto them, therefore He hath slain them in the wilderness.
Numbers 14: 17 And now, I pray Thee, let the power of the Lord be great, according as Thou hast spoken, saying:
Numbers 14: 18 The LORD is slow to anger, and plenteous in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.
Numbers 14: 19 Pardon, I pray Thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of Thy lovingkindness, and according as Thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.'
Numbers 14: 20 And the LORD said: 'I have pardoned according to thy word'
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