Exodus 9

¹Then the Lord

²For if you refuse to let them go, and still hold them,

³behold, the hand of the Lord

⁴And the Lord

⁵Then the Lord

⁶So the Lord

⁷Then Pharaoh sent, and indeed, not even one of the livestock of the Israelites was dead. But the heart of Pharaoh became hard, and he did not let the people go.

⁸So the Lord

⁹And it will become fine dust in all the land of Egypt, and it will cause boils that break out in sores on man and beast throughout all the land of Egypt.”

¹⁰Then they took ashes from the furnace and stood before Pharaoh, and Moses scattered them toward heaven. And they caused boils that break out in sores on man and beast.

¹¹And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians.

¹²But the Lord

¹³Then the Lord

¹⁴for at this time I will send all My plagues to your very heart, and on your servants and on your people, that you may know that there is none like Me in all the earth.

¹⁵Now if I had stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, then you would have been cut off from the earth.

¹⁶But indeed for this purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.

¹⁷As yet you exalt yourself against My people in that you will not let them go.

¹⁸Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause very heavy hail to rain down, such as has not been in Egypt since its founding until now.

¹⁹Therefore send now and gather your livestock and all that you have in the field, for the hail shall come down on every man and every animal which is found in the field and is not brought home; and they shall die.” ’ ”

²⁰He who feared the word of the Lord

²¹But he who did not regard the word of the Lord

²²Then the Lord

²³And Moses stretched out his rod toward heaven; and the Lord

²⁴So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, so very heavy that there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

²⁵And the hail struck throughout the whole land of Egypt, all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail struck every herb of the field and broke every tree of the field.

²⁶Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no hail.

²⁷And Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “I have sinned this time. The Lord

²⁸Entreat the Lord

²⁹So Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to the Lord

³⁰But as for you and your servants, I know that you will not yet fear the Lord

³¹Now the flax and the barley were struck, for the barley was in the head and the flax was in bud.

³²But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they are late crops.

³³So Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and spread out his hands to the Lord

³⁴And when Pharaoh saw that the rain, the hail, and the thunder had ceased, he sinned yet more; and he hardened his heart, he and his servants.

³⁵So the heart of Pharaoh was hard; neither would he let the children of Israel go, as the Lord