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Numbers 14:20

ForgivenessPrayerGrace

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.’

19 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.”

“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,

22 not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—

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BSB
“I have pardoned them as you requested,” the LORD replied.
KJV
And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
WEB
The LORD said, “I have pardoned according to your word;
ASV
And Jehovah said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
DARBY
And Jehovah said, I have pardoned according to thy word.
BLB
And YHWH said, “I have pardoned according to your word,
ÅB
Da sa Herren: Jeg har tilgitt dem etter ditt ord.
OTB
Herren svarte: “Jeg har tilgitt dem, som du ba om.
B1930
Da sa Herren: Jeg har tilgitt dem efter ditt ord.

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Cross references

  • Micah 7:18–20

    Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?

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  • Psalms 106:23

    So He said He would destroy them— had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.

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  • James 5:16

    Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.

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