Numbers 14:12-15

¹²I will attack them with plague, disinherit them, and make from your own clan a nation that will be greater and mightier than they are.”

¹³Moses said to Yahweh, “If you do this, then the Egyptians will hear about it, because you rescued this people from them by your power.

¹⁴They will tell it to this land's inhabitants. They have heard that you, Yahweh, are present with this people, because you are seen face to face. Your cloud stands over our people. You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.

¹⁵Now if you kill this people as one man, then the nations that have heard of your fame will speak and say,