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12 I’ll strike them with a plague, I’ll destroy them,[a] and I’ll make you into a nation larger and stronger than they are.”

13 But Moses said to the Lord, “What if the Egyptians hear about it? (You used your power to take these people away from them.) 14 What if the Egyptians tell the people who live in this land? Lord, they have already heard that you are with these people, that they have seen you with their own eyes, that your column of smoke stays over them, and that you go ahead of them in a column of smoke by day and in a column of fire by night.

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Footnotes

  1. 14:12 Or “I’ll take away the land I promised them.”

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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