Numbers 14:19

¹⁷ So now I pray, may the power of my Lord be magnified, just as You have declared:

¹⁸ ‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.’

Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people, in keeping with the greatness of Your loving devotion, just as You have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt.”

²⁰ “I have pardoned them as you requested,” the LORD replied.

²¹ “Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD,

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people, in keeping with the greatness of Your loving devotion, just as You have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt.”
KJV: Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
WEB: Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and just as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”
ASV: 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.
DARBY: Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of thy loving-kindness, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
BLB: Pardon, please, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of Your loving devotion, and as You have forgiven this people from Egypt even until now.”

ÅB: Tilgi da dette folk dets misgjerning etter din store miskunnhet, som du har tilgitt dem hele veien fra Egypt og hit!
OTB: I samsvar med Din store kjærlighet, tilgi overtredelsen til dette folket, slik Du har tilgitt dem fra den tid de forlot Egypt til nå.”
B1930: Tilgi da dette folk dets misgjerning efter din store miskunnhet, som du har tilgitt dem hele veien fra Egypten og hit!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Exodus 34:9
“O Lord,” he said, “if I have indeed found favor in Your sight, my Lord, please go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our iniquity and sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”
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Psalms 106:45
And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.
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Psalms 78:38
And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.
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Exodus 32:32
Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.”
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Jonah 4:2
So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.
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Psalms 51:1–2
Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.
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Jonah 3:10
When God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them.
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James 5:15
And the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick. The Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.
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