Numbers 14:13-16

13And Moses said unto Yhwh, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;) 14And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou Yhwh art among this people, that thou Yhwh art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.

15Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying, 16Because Yhwh was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.