Numbers 14:13

Moses said to the Lord, “When the Egyptians hear ¹  it – for you brought up this people by your power from among them –

Ex 32:12; De 9:26-28; De 32:27; Jos 7:8,9; Ps 106:23; Eze 20:9,14

¹ tn The construction is unusual in that we have here a perfect tense with a vav (ו) consecutive with no verb before it to establish the time sequence. The context requires that this be taken as a vav (ו) consecutive. It actually forms the protasis for the next verse, and would best be rendered “when…then they will say.”