Numbers 14:12-15

¹²I will smite them with the pestilence and consume them; and will make of thee a people greater and stronger than they.

¹³But Mosheh said before the Lord, And the Mizraee will hear of it; for Thou didst bring up by Thy power this people from among them,

¹⁴And they will tell unto the inhabitants of this land; for they have heard that Thou, O Lord, dost dwell in Thy Shekinah among this people, whose eyes behold the glorious Shekinah of the Lord, and that Thy Cloud overshadoweth them, and that in the pillar of the Cloud Thou conductest them in the day, and in the pillar of Fire by night.

¹⁵Now if Thou shalt kill this people as one man, the nations who have heard the fame of Thy power will speak, saying: