“Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.”
'The LORD was not able to bring these people into the land he promised them on oath; so he slaughtered them in the wilderness' — the anticipated nations' words reduce God's power to impotence; if Israel dies in the wilderness, the Exodus becomes a cosmic failure, God's oath to Abraham negated by His inability to complete what He began. Moses' intercession protects God's reputation.
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