Exodus 9:13–21

THE SEVENTH PLAGUE: HAIL

¹³Then the Lord said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and present yourself to Pharaoh. Tell him: This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. ¹⁴For this time I am about to send all my plagues against you,^A your officials, and your people. Then you will know there is no one like me on the whole earth. ¹⁵By now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with a plague, and you would have been obliterated from the earth.^{d 16}However, I have let you live for this purpose: to show you my power^e and to make my name known on the whole earth. ¹⁷You are still acting arrogantly against^B my people by not letting them go. ¹⁸Tomorrow at this time I will rain down the worst hail^f that has ever occurred in Egypt from the day it was founded until now. ¹⁹Therefore give orders to bring your livestock and all that you have in the field into shelters. Every person and animal that is in the field and not brought inside will die when the hail falls on them.” ²⁰Those among Pharaoh’s officials who feared the word of the Lord made their servants and livestock flee to shelters, ²¹but those who didn’t take to heart the Lord’s word left their servants and livestock in the field.