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,
16'Because Yahweh could not take this people into the land that he swore to give them, he has killed them in the wilderness.'