10. While the whole community threatened to stone them, the glory of the Lord appeared to all the Israelites at the tent of meeting.
11. The Lord said to Moses, “How long will these people despise Me? How long will they not trust in Me despite all the signs I have performed among them?
12. I will strike them with a plague and destroy them. Then I will make you into a greater and mightier nation than they are.”
13. But Moses replied to the Lord, “The Egyptians will hear about it, for by Your strength You brought up this people from them.
14. They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, Lord, are among these people, how You, Lord, are seen face to face, how Your cloud stands over them, and how You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.
15. If You kill this people with a single blow, the nations that have heard of Your fame will declare,
16. ‘Since the Lord wasn’t able to bring this people into the land He swore to give them, He has slaughtered them in the wilderness.’