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What does Numbers 14:20 mean?
"Yahweh said, “I have pardoned according to your word:"
— Numbers 14:20 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Now please let the power of the Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying,
‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’
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.”
Yahweh said, “I have pardoned according to your word:
but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with Yahweh’s glory;
because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it.
Explanation
Numbers 14:20 records God's direct response to Moses' impassioned prayer of intercession on behalf of the people of Israel. In plain terms, God says, "I have forgiven, just as you asked me to." It's a short but weighty statement — a divine verdict following a national crisis, where God agrees to relent from a proposed judgment because of the app
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