12 Therefore, I will strike them with a pestilence, and so I will consume them. But you I will make the ruler over a great nation, and one which is mightier than this one.'
13 And Moses said to the Lord: 'But then the Egyptians, from whose midst you led out this people,
14 and the inhabitants of this land, who have heard that you, O Lord, are among this people, and that you are seen face to face, and that your cloud protects them, and that you go before them with a column of cloud by day, and a column of fire by night,
15 may hear that you have killed so great a multitude, as if they were one man, and they may say:
16 'He was not able to lead the people into the land about which he had sworn. Therefore, he slew them in the wilderness.'
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