Now if you kill this people as one man, then the nations who have heard your fame will say,
And the LORD said to him, "But I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man."
Why should the Egyptians say, 'With evil intent did he bring them out, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth'? Turn from your burning anger and relent from this disaster against your people.
'It is because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to give to them that he has killed them in the wilderness.'