Numbers 14:14 ASV

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

¹³  And Moses said unto Jehovah, Then the Egyptians will hear it; for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;

¹⁴  and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that thou Jehovah art in the midst of this people; for thou Jehovah art seen face to face, and thy cloud standeth over them, and thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.

¹⁵  Now if thou shalt kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,

¹⁶  Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.