12 I will smite them with the pestilence and destroy them, and will make thee a greater nation and mightier than they.

13 But Moses said unto the Lord, (A)When the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest this people by thy power from among them)

14 Then they shall say to the inhabitants of the land, (for they have heard, that thou Lord, art among this people, and that thou, Lord, art seen [a]face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou (B)goest before them, by daytime in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.)

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 14:14 Hebrew, eye to eye.

12 I will strike them down with a plague(A) and destroy them, but I will make you into a nation(B) greater and stronger than they.”(C)

13 Moses said to the Lord, “Then the Egyptians will hear about it! By your power you brought these people up from among them.(D) 14 And they will tell the inhabitants of this land about it. They have already heard(E) that you, Lord, are with these people(F) and that you, Lord, have been seen face to face,(G) that your cloud stays over them,(H) and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.(I)

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