12. I will smite them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and will make of you [Moses] a nation greater and mightier than they.
13. But Moses said to the Lord, Then the Egyptians will hear of 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, Lord, are in the midst of this people [of Israel], that You, Lord, are seen face to face, and that Your cloud stands over them, and that You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.
15. Now if You kill all this people as one man, then the nations that have heard Your fame will say,
16. Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which He swore to give to them, therefore He has slain them in the wilderness.