12. “Let Me smite them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”
13. And Mosheh said to יהוה, “Then the Mitsrites shall hear it, for by Your power You brought these people up from their midst,
14. and they shall say to the inhabitants of this land they have heard that You, יהוה, are in the midst of these people, that You, יהוה, are seen eye to eye and that Your cloud stands above them, and You go before them in a column of cloud by day and in a column of fire by night.
15. “Now if You shall kill these people as one man, then the nations which have heard of Your report shall speak, saying,
16. ‘Because יהוה was not able to bring this people to the land which He swore to give them, therefore He killed them in the wilderness.’
17. “And now, I pray, let the power of יהוה be great, as You have spoken, saying,
18. ‘יהוה is patient and of great kindness, forgiving crookedness and transgression, but by no means leaving unpunished; visiting the crookedness of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.’