Exodus 9

2For if thou wilt not send away My people but still detain them,

3behold the hand of the Lord will be upon thy cattle in the field: and among the horses and among the asses and the camels and the herds and the flocks there shall be a grievous pestilence.

4And at this time also I will make a remarkable distinction between the cattle of the Egyptians and the cattle of the Israelites. Among the aforementioned belonging to Israel not one shall die.

6So on the morrow the Lord executed this, and all the cattle which died belonged to the Egyptians; but of the cattle belonging to the Israelites not one died.

7But though Pharao saw that of all the cattle belonging to the Israelites not one died, his heart was inflexible and he would not let the people go.

9and let there be dust on all the land of Egypt, and there shall be on men and four-footed beasts an inflammation; blains oozing forth both on man and beast in all the land of Egypt.

10So Moses took the ashes of a furnace in the sight of Pharao and scattered them towards heaven,

11and there was an inflammation with oozing blains both on man and beast, so that the sorcerers could not stand before Moses, because of these boils. For the boils were on the sorcerers and throughout all the land of Egypt.

12But the Lord made Pharao’s heart stubborn and he hearkened not to them as the Lord commanded.

14For at this time I am going to send all My plagues into thy heart and the heart of thy servants and thy people, that thou mayst know that there is none like Me in all the earth. I might now indeed have stretched forth My hand and smitten thee and destroyed thy people with pestilence, so that thou shouldst have been blotted out from the earth:

16but thou hast been preserved for this purpose that by thee I might display My power and that My name may be celebrated throughout all the earth.

17Shouldst thou therefore still determine with respect to My people not to let them go,

18behold at this time to-morrow I will pour down a great storm of hail—such as hath never been in Egypt, from the day it was created even to this day.

19Now therefore haste and gather in thy cattle and whatever thou hast in the field. For every man and beast, which shall be found in the fields and shall not have come home, on them the hail shall fall and they shall die.

21But such as paid no regard to the word of the Lord left their cattle in the fields.

22Then the Lord said to Moses, Stretch forth thy hand towards heaven, and there shall be hail on all the land of Egypt, both on man and beast and on every herb which is on the ground.

23And Moses stretched forth his hand towards heaven and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and the fire streamed along the ground. And the Lord poured down a storm of hail on all the land of Egypt.

24And there was hail, with flaming fire among the hail. And the hailstorm was excessively great such as had never been in Egypt from the day there was a nation in it.

25And throughout all the land of Egypt the hail smote both man and beast. The hail also smote every herb of the field and broke to pieces all the trees in the fields.

26But in the land of Gesem where the children of Israel were, there was no hail.

27Then Pharao sent for Moses and Aaron and said to them, I have sinned this time. The Lord is righteous; but as for me and my people, we are wicked.

28Pray therefore for me to the Lord; and let the voices of God and the hail and fire cease and I will send you away and you shall stay no longer.

29And Moses said to him, As soon as I have gone out of the city I will spread out my hands to the Lord and the voices will cease and there will be no more hail and rain, that thou mayst know that the earth is the Lord’s.

30But as for thee and thy attendants I know that you do not yet fear the Lord.

32But the wheat and spelts were not smitten for they had been lately sown.

34And when Pharao saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder were stayed he continued on in his course of sinning and hardened his own heart and the hearts of his servants.