Numbers 14:16

¹⁴Moreover all the dwellers upon this land have heard that thou art Lord in the midst of this people, who, O Lord, art seen by them face to face, and thy cloud rests upon them, and thou goest before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire.

¹⁵And if thou shalt destroy this nation as one man; then all the nations that have heard thy name shall speak, saying,

— Numbers 14:16 —

¹⁷And now, O Lord, let thy strength be exalted, as thou spokest, saying,

¹⁸The Lord is long-suffering and merciful, and true, removing transgressions and iniquities and sins, and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation.