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.'
17. Therefore, may the strength of the Lord be magnified, just as you swore, saying: