8. If the Lord delights in us, then he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land which flows with milk and honey.
9. Therefore, do not be rebels against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land, for they are our bread; their defence is departed from them, and the Lord is with us; do not fear them.
10. Then all the multitude spoke of stoning them with stones. But the glory of the Lord appeared in the tabernacle of the testimony before all the sons of Israel.
11. And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? How long will it be before they believe me, with all the signs which I have done among them?
12. I will smite them with the pestilence and disinherit them and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
13. And Moses said unto the Lord, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, for thou didst bring this people out of the midst of them with thy might;
14. and the inhabitants of this land will say, for they have already heard that thou, oh Lord, wast among this people, that thou, O Lord, art seen face to face, and that thy cloud was over them, and that thou didst go before them by day time in a pillar of a cloud and in a pillar of fire by night;
15. and that thou hast caused all this people to die as one man; and the Gentiles who have heard of thy fame will speak, saying,
16. Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore unto them; therefore, he has slain them in the wilderness.