Numbers 14:14 WEB

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

¹³  Moses said to Yahweh, Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them;

¹⁴  and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Yahweh are in the midst of this people; for you Yahweh are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.

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

¹⁶  Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.