Numbers 14:12-14

New Catholic Bible

¹² I will strike them down with a plague and I will destroy them. Then I will make a nation arise from you that is greater and mightier than they are.”^[a]

¹³ But Moses said to the Lord, “The Egyptians will hear about it, for by your power you brought this people out from their midst. ¹⁴ They will report it to the people of this land. They have heard that you, O Lord, are in the midst of this people, for you, O Lord, are seen face to face. Your cloud stands over them, and you go before them as a cloud by day and as a pillar of fire by night.