^12 (A)Why should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent did he bring them out, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger and ^(B)relent from this disaster against your people.

Moses Intercedes for the People

¹³ But ^(A)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 the inhabitants of this land. ^(B)They have heard that you, O Lord, are in the midst of this people. For you, O Lord, are seen face to face, and ^(C)your cloud stands over them and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.