But Moses said to Yahweh, “Then the Egyptians will hear of it — for by your power you brought this people up from among them —
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11Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? How long will they refuse to believe in me, despite all the signs I have done among them? 12I will strike them with a plague and dispossess them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they are.” 13But Moses said to Yahweh, “Then the Egyptians will hear of it — for by your power you brought this people up from among them — 14and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, Yahweh, are among this people, that you, Yahweh, are seen face to face, that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. 15Now if you kill this people all at once, the nations who have heard of your fame will say,
