Deuteronomy 32:26

“I said, ‘I want to cut them in pieces. ¹  I want to make people forget they ever existed.

I said I would scatter them and blot out their memory from mankind,

‘I would have said, "I will cut them to pieces, I will remove the memory of them from men,"

I decided to scatter them, so even the memory of them would disappear.

I could have said, "I'll hack them to pieces, wipe out all trace of them from the Earth,"

I said I would send them wandering far away, I would make all memory of them go from the minds of men:

I thought to scatter them and blot out the memory of them from humankind;

I would have said, "I will dash them in pieces, I will make the memory of them to cease from among men,"

“I said, ‘I want to cut them in pieces. ¹  I want to make people forget they ever existed.

¹ tc The LXX reads “I said I would scatter them.” This reading is followed by a number of English versions (e.g., KJV, ASV, NIV, NCV, NRSV, NLT, CEV).