Exodus 9:1-21 ▼

1 Then the LORD told Moses, |Go to Pharaoh and say to him, 'This is what the LORD God of the Hebrews says: |Let my people go so they may serve me.

2 But if you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them,

3 then the hand of the LORD will come with a very severe plague on your livestock in the fields, on horses, on donkeys, on camels, on cattle, and on sheep.

4 The LORD will distinguish between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of the Egyptians, so that nothing that belongs to the Israelis will die.|'|

5 The LORD set the time: |Tomorrow the LORD will do this thing in the land.|

6 The LORD did this thing the next day, and all the livestock of the Egyptians died. But not one of the livestock died that belonged to the Israelis.

7 Then Pharaoh inquired and discovered that not a single one of the livestock of Israel had died, but Pharaoh's heart was stubborn and he would not let the people go.

8 Then the LORD told Moses and Aaron, |Take handfuls of soot from a kiln, and let Moses throw it into the air in front of Pharaoh.

9 The soot will become dust over the entire land of Egypt, and it will become boils erupting into sores on people and animals throughout the land of Egypt.|

10 So they took soot from the kiln and stood before Pharaoh. Then Moses threw it into the air, and it became boils producing running sores on people and animals.

11 The magicians were not able to stand before Moses because of the boils, because the boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians.

12 The LORD made Pharaoh's heart stubborn so that he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had told Moses.

13 Then the LORD told Moses, |Get up early in the morning, present yourself to Pharaoh, and say to him, 'This is what the LORD God of the Hebrews says: |Let my people go so they may serve me.

14 Indeed, this time I'm sending all my plagues against you , your officials, and your people, so you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.

15 Indeed, by now I could have sent forth my hand and struck you and your people with a plague, and you would have been destroyed from the earth.

16 However, I've kept you standing in order to show you my power and to declare my name in all the earth.

17 You are still acting arrogantly against my people by not letting them go.

18 Look! About this time tomorrow, I'll send a severe hail storm, such as has not happened in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

19 So send for your livestock and everything that belongs to you that's out in the field, because every person and animal found in the field that has not been brought inside to shelters will die when the hail comes down on them.|'|

20 Whoever feared the message from the LORD among Pharaoh's officials made his servants and livestock flee into shelters.

21 But whoever did not pay attention to the message from the LORD left his servants and his livestock outside in the fields.