Numbers 14:18

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Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.

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Egypt was the land from which the Lord delivered Israel, displaying both his power and covenant mercy. The way of the Red Sea was the route associated with that exodus and later wilderness travel, underscoring that the people now facing judgment had repeatedly witnessed God’s faithfulness.

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Numbers 14:18 mentions Egypt and Way of the Red Sea.

Photo of Egypt — Egypt · Ricardo Liberato

Photo of Way of the Red Sea — Way of the Red Sea · zstadler