¹² Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the earth’?^(A) Turn from your fierce anger; relent and do not bring disaster^(B) on your people.

²⁸ Otherwise, the country^(A) from which you brought us will say, ‘Because the Lord was not able to take them into the land he had promised them, and because he hated them,^(B) he brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.’^(C)

⁹ But for the sake of my name, I brought them out of Egypt.^(A) I did it to keep my name from being profaned^(B) in the eyes of the nations among whom they lived and in whose sight I had revealed myself to the Israelites.