Exodus 9:13–21

¹³The Lord then said to Moses, “Early tomorrow morning meet with the king and tell him that the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says, ‘Let my people go, so that they may worship me. ¹⁴This time I will punish not only your officials and your people, but I will punish you as well, so that you may know that there is no one like me in all the world. ¹⁵If I had raised my hand to strike you and your people with disease, you would have been completely destroyed. ^16*But to show you my power I have let you live so that my fame might spread over the whole world. ¹⁷Yet you are still arrogant and refuse to let my people go. ¹⁸This time tomorrow I will cause a heavy hailstorm, such as Egypt has never known in all its history. ¹⁹Now give orders for your livestock and everything else you have in the open to be put under shelter. Hail will fall on the people and animals left outside unprotected, and they will all die.’ ” ²⁰Some of the king’s officials were afraid because of what the Lord had said, and they brought their slaves and animals indoors for shelter. ²¹Others, however, paid no attention to the Lord’s warning and left their slaves and animals out in the open.