Numbers 14:12
14:12 I will strike them with the pestilence, 1 and I will disinherit them; I will make you into a nation that is greater and mightier than they!”
Numbers 14:15
14:15 If you kill 2 this entire people at once, 3 then the nations that have heard of your fame will say,
1 tc The Greek version has “death.”
2 tn The verb is the Hiphil perfect of מוּת (mut), וְהֵמַתָּה (vÿhemattah). The vav (ו) consecutive makes this also a future time sequence verb, but again in a conditional clause.
3 tn Heb “as one man.”