Exodus 9:5-35 ▼

5 And YHWH set an appointed time, saying, “Tomorrow YHWH will do this thing in the land.”

6 And YHWH did this thing on the next day, and all the livestock of Egypt died. And from the livestock of the sons of Israel, not one died.

7 And Pharaoh sent, and behold, not even one of the livestock of Israel had died. And the heart of Pharaoh was heavy, and he did not send out. the people

8 And YHWH said to Moses and to Aaron, “Take for yourselves the fullness of both palms of soot of a furnace, and Moses shall scatter it toward the heavens before the eyes of Pharaoh.

9 And it will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and it shall become boils bursting with blisters, on man and on beast, in all the land of Egypt.”

10 And they took soot of the furnace and stood before the face of Pharaoh. And Moses scattered it toward the heavens, and it became boils with blisters bursting, on the man and on the beast.

11 And the magicians were not able to stand before the face of Moses, because of the boils, for the boils were on the magicians and on all Egypt.

12 And YHWH strengthened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not listen to them, as YHWH had spoken to Moses.

13 And YHWH said to Moses, “Rise early in the morning and stand before the face of Pharaoh and say to him: Thus says YHWH God of the Hebrews, ‘Send out My people, that they may serve Me.

14 For at this time I am sending all My plagues to your heart, and on your servants, and on your people, in order that you may know that there is none like Me in all the earth.

15 For now I could have stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with the pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth.

16 But indeed for this reason I have caused you to stand, in order to show you My power, and in order to proclaim My name in all the earth.

17 Still you are exalting yourself over My people, so as not to send them out.

18 Behold, about this time tomorrow I am raining down very heavy hail, such as has not been like it in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

19 And now, send—have your livestock brought in, and all that you have in the field; every man and beast that is found in the field and is not gathered to the house—the hail shall come down on them, and they shall die.’”

20 The one who fears the word of YHWH among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his livestock flee into the houses.

21 And he who did not set his heart to the word of YHWH left his servants and his livestock in the field.

22 And YHWH said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the heavens, and there shall be hail in all the land of Egypt, on the man, and on the beast, and on every plant of the field in the land of Egypt.”

23 And Moses stretched out his staff toward the heavens, and YHWH gave voices and hail, and fire went to the earth. And YHWH rained down hail on the land of Egypt.

24 And there was hail, and fire coming in the middle of the hail, very heavy, such as that there was none like it in all the land of Egypt from the time it became a nation.

25 And the hail struck in all land of Egypt all that was in the field—from man even to beast—and every plant of the field. The hail struck and shattered every tree of the field.

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

27 And Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and for Aaron and said to them, “I have sinned this time. YHWH is the righteous one, and I and my people are the wicked ones.

28 Pray to YHWH, for there has been too much of God’s voices and hail. And I will send you? out, and you shall no longer stay.”

29 And Moses said to him, “As I leave the city, I will spread out my hands to YHWH, and the voices will cease, and there will not be the hail anymore, in order that you may know that the earth belongs to YHWH.

30 And as for you and your servants, I know that (you? do not yet fear from before the face of YHWH God.”

31 (And the flax and the barley were struck, for the barley was in ear, and the flax was in bud.

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

33 And Moses went out from Pharaoh, out of the city, and he spread out his hands to YHWH, and the voices and the hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth.

34 And Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the voices had ceased, and he continued to sin and made heavy his heart—he and his servants.

35 And the heart of Pharaoh was strengthened, and he did not send out the sons of Israel, as YHWH had spoken by the hand Moses.