Numbers 14:12-16

I will strike them with plague and dispossess them, and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they.”

But Moses said to the Lord, “Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought this people up from their midst,

and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, Lord, are in the midst of this people, because You, Lord, are seen eye to eye, while 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.

Now if You put this people to death all at once, then the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,

‘Since the Lord could not bring this people into the land which He promised them by oath, He slaughtered them in the wilderness.’