BRAGADAYJAH 429
Moses Intercedes For the
people.
Just as the people purposed
in their hearts to do grievous bodily harm to Moses and Aaron and Caleb and Joshua,
the Lord intervened and said unto Moses, “How long will this people provoke me?
And how long will it be before they believe me for all the signs I have shown
among them? I will smite them with the
pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of thee a greater nation and
mightier than they.”
And Moses said unto the Lord,
“then the Egyptians shall hear of it; for it was you who brought them up out of
Egypt by your might. And they will tell it to the inhabitants of the land; for
they have heard that you, Lord, are among them, and go before them, by daytime
in a pillar of cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire.
Therefore if you kill all
this people, as one man, then the nations who have heard of you will say,
because the Lord was not able to bring his people into the land which He swore
unto them to give them, He has slain them in the wilderness.”
“So now, I beseech you dear
Lord, let your power be greater as you have spoken saying, the Lord is
long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression and by
no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the
children of the third and fourth generation.”
“Pardon, therefore, I0 pray
you dear Lord, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of your
mercy, and as thou hast repeatedly forgiven them since they left Egypt unto
now.”
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