10 But the entire community intended to stone them.Then the Lord’s glory appeared in the meeting tent to all the Israelites.
11 The Lord said to Moses, "How long will these people disrespect me? And how long will they doubt me after all the signs that I performed among them?
12 I’ll strike them down with a plague and disown them. Then I’ll make you into a great nation, stronger than they."
13 Moses said to the Lord, "The Egyptians will hear, for with your power you brought these people up from among them.
14 They’ll tell the inhabitants of this land. They’ve heard that you, Lord, are with this people. You, Lord, appear to them face-to-face. Your cloud stands over them. You go before them in a column of cloud by day and in a column of lightning by night.
15 If you kill these people, every last one of them, the nations who heard about you will say,
16 ‘The Lord wasn’t able to bring these people to the land that he solemnly promised to give them. So he slaughtered them in the desert.’