Parashas Shelach · Side page (TT silent)
And Moshe said to Hashem: Then Egypt will hear, for You brought up this people by Your power from their midst.
Classic intercession: the nations will misread destruction as divine inability (parallel to Exodus 32).
English: Then Egypt will hear, for You brought up this people by Your power from their midst.
Intercession by the honor of the Name among the nations.
TT silent; Moshe’s first move is not the people’s merit but the chilul that would follow if the Exodus ended in a wilderness grave.