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12 “That’s why I’m going to attack them with pestilence and disinherit them. Instead, I’ll make you a great nation—even mightier than they are!”

Moses Intercedes for Israel

13 But Moses responded to the Lord, “When Egypt hears that you’ve brought this people out from among them with a mighty demonstration of power,[a] 14 they’ll also proclaim to the inhabitants of this land that they’ve heard you’re among this people, Lord, whom they’ve seen face to face,[b] since your cloud stands guard over them. You’ve guided them with a pillar of cloud by day and with a pillar of fire by night.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 14:13 The Heb. lacks demonstration of
  2. Numbers 14:14 Lit. seen 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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