“Now if You shall kill these people as one man, then the nations which have heard of Your report shall speak, saying,
“Why should the Mitsrites speak, and say, ‘For evil He brought them out to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from the heat of Your wrath, and relent from this evil to Your people.
‘Because יהוה was not able to bring this people to the land which He swore to give them, therefore He killed them in the wilderness.’
And יהוה said to him, “Because I am with you, you shall smite the Miḏ