Numbers 14:12-15

¹²Therefore I shall smite them with pestilence, and I shall waste them; soothly I shall make thee prince upon a greater folk, and stronger than is this.

¹³And Moses said to the Lord, The Egyptians hear not, from whose middle thou leddest out this people,

¹⁴and the dwellers of this land, which heard that thou, Lord, art in this people, and art seen face to face, and that thy cloud defendeth them, and that thou goest before them in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night,

¹⁵that thou hast slain so great a multitude as one man, and say,