God Threatens Destruction

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ADONAI said to Moshe, "How much longer is this people going to treat me with contempt? How much longer will they not trust me, especially considering all the signs I have performed among them?

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I am going to strike them with sickness, destroy them and make from you a nation greater and stronger than they are!"

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However, Moshe replied to ADONAI, "When the Egyptians hear about this -[and they will,] because it was from among them that you, by your strength, brought this people up -

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they will tell the people living in this land. They have heard that you, ADONAI, are with this people; that you, ADONAI, are seen face to face; that your cloud stands over them; that you go ahead of them in a column of cloud by day and a column of fire by night.

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If you kill off this people at a single stroke, then the nations that have heard of your reputation will say

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that the reason ADONAI slaughtered this people in the desert is that he wasn't able to bring them into the land which he swore to give them.

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So now, please, let Adonai's power be as great as when you said,

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'ADONAI is slow to anger, rich in grace, forgiving offenses and crimes; yet not exonerating the guilty, but causing the negative effects of the parents' offenses to be experienced by their children and even by the third and fourth generations.'

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Please! Forgive the offense of this people according to the greatness of your grace, just as you have borne with this people from Egypt until now."

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