| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Berean Study Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and tell him that this is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may worship Me. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2But if you continue to restrain them and refuse to let them go, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3then the hand of the LORD will bring a severe plague on your livestock in the field—on your horses, donkeys, camels, herds, and flocks. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4But the LORD will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that no animal belonging to the Israelites will die.’ ” |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5The LORD set a time, saying, “Tomorrow the LORD will do this in the land.” |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6And the next day the LORD did just that. All the livestock of the Egyptians died, but not one animal belonging to the Israelites died. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Pharaoh sent officials and found that none of the livestock of the Israelites had died. But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not let the people go. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of soot from the furnace; in the sight of Pharaoh, Moses is to toss it into the air. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9It will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and festering boils will break out on man and beast throughout the land.” |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10So they took soot from the furnace and stood before Pharaoh. Moses tossed it into the air, and festering boils broke out on man and beast. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11The magicians could not stand before Moses, because the boils had broken out on them and on all the Egyptians. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said to Moses. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Then the LORD said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning, stand before Pharaoh, and tell him that this is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may worship Me. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Otherwise, I will send all My plagues against you and your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15For by this time I could have stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with a plague to wipe you off the earth. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power to you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Still, you lord it over My people and do not allow them to go. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Behold, at this time tomorrow I will rain down the worst hail that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded until now. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19So give orders now to shelter your livestock and everything you have in the field. Every man or beast that remains in the field and is not brought inside will die when the hail comes down upon them.’ ” |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Those among Pharaoh’s officials who feared the word of the LORD hurried to bring their servants and livestock to shelter, |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21but those who disregarded the word of the LORD left their servants and livestock in the field. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that hail may fall on all the land of Egypt—on man and beast and every plant of the field throughout the land of Egypt.” |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning struck the earth. So the LORD rained down hail upon the land of Egypt. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24The hail fell and the lightning continued flashing through it. The hail was so severe that nothing like it had ever been seen in all the land of Egypt from the time it became a nation. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Throughout the land of Egypt, the hail struck down everything in the field, both man and beast; it beat down every plant of the field and stripped every tree. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26The only place where it did not hail was in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites lived. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron. “This time I have sinned,” he said. “The LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Pray to the LORD, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go; you do not need to stay any longer.” |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Moses said to him, “When I have left the city, I will spread out my hands to the LORD. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the LORD’s. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30But as for you and your officials, I know that you still do not fear the LORD our God.” |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31(Now the flax and barley were destroyed, since the barley was ripe and the flax was in bloom; |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32but the wheat and spelt were not destroyed, because they are late crops.) |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Then Moses departed from Pharaoh, went out of the city, and spread out his hands to the LORD. The thunder and hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured down on the land. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart—he and his officials. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35So Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not let the Israelites go, just as the LORD had said through Moses. |
|
