14:13 Moses said to the Lord, “When the Egyptians hear 1 it – for you brought up this people by your power from among them – 14:14 then they will tell it to the inhabitants 2 of this land. They have heard that you, Lord, are among this people, that you, Lord, are seen face to face, 3 that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night. 14:15 If you kill 4 this entire people at once, 5 then the nations that have heard of your fame will say, 14:16 ‘Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to them, he killed them in the wilderness.’ 14:17 So now, let the power of my Lord 6 be great, just as you have said, 14:18 ‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in loyal love, 7 forgiving iniquity and transgression, 8 but by no means clearing 9 the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children until the third and fourth generations.’ 10 14:19 Please forgive 11 the iniquity of this people according to your great loyal love, 12 just as you have forgiven this people from Egypt even until now.”
14:20 Then the Lord said, “I have forgiven them as you asked. 13