“Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.”
Otherwise, the country from which you brought us might say, 'It was because the LORD was not able to take us into the land that he promised us, and because he hated us that he brought us out to let us die in the wilderness' — Moses' intercession introduces a diplomatic argument: destruction of Israel would damage the LORD's reputation among the nations. The promised land itself would be evidence that the LORD either lacked power or hated his people.
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