¹² Why should ^(A)the Egyptians speak, saying, ‘With evil intent He brought them out to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your burning anger and change Your mind about doing harm to Your people.

⁴ The Lord said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute them ^[a]in broad daylight before the Lord, ^(A)so that the fierce anger of the Lord may turn away from Israel.”