Numbers 14:12-15

¹²I will smite them with the pestilence, and root them out, and I will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.

¹³And Moses said unto the Lord, But when the Egyptian hear, from the midst of whom thou hast brought up in thy might this people;—

¹⁴And when they tell to the inhabitants of this land, who have heard that thou, Lord, art in the midst of this people, that face to face thou, Lord, art seen, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that in a pillar of cloud thou goest before them by day, and in a pillar of fire by night;—

¹⁵That thou hast killed this people as one man: then will the nations that have heard thy fame, say in this manner,