סָלַחְתִּי כִּדְבָרֶךָ - שלח for the סלח A פרשת שלח

(13) But Moses said to יהוה, “When the Egyptians, from whose midst You brought up this people in Your might, hear the news,(14) they will tell it to the inhabitants of that land. Now they have heard that You, יהוה, are in the midst of this people; that You, יהוה, appear in plain sight when Your cloud rests over them and when You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.(15) If then You slay this people wholesale,*wholesale Lit. “like a single participant,” i.e., without discrimination; NJPS “to a man,” trad. “as one man.” See the Dictionary under ’ish. the nations who have heard Your fame will say,(16) ‘It must be because יהוה was powerless to bring that people into the land promised them on oath that [that god] slaughtered them in the wilderness.’(17) Therefore, I pray, let my Lord’s forbearance be great, as You have declared, saying,*saying Cf. Exod. 34.6–7.(18) ‘יהוה ! slow to anger and abounding in kindness; forgiving iniquity and transgression; yet not remitting all punishment, but visiting the iniquity of parents upon children, upon the third and fourth generations.’(19) Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people according to Your great kindness, as You have forgiven this people ever since Egypt.”(20) And יהוה said, “I pardon, as you have asked.(21) Nevertheless, as I live and as יהוה’s Presence fills the whole world,(22) none of those involved—who have seen My Presence and the signs that I have performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, and who have tried Me these many*many Lit. “ten”; cf. note at Gen. 31.41. times and have disobeyed Me—(23) shall see the land that I promised on oath to their fathers; none of those who spurn Me shall see it.(24) But My servant Caleb, because he was imbued with a different spirit and remained loyal to Me—him will I bring into the land that he entered, and his offspring shall hold it as a possession.