Exodus 9:18–25

¹⁸Tomorrow at this time I will rain down the worst hail ^vthat 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 the Lord’s word seriously left their servants and livestock in the field.

²²Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven and let there be hail throughout the land of Egypt—on man and beast and every plant of the field in the land of Egypt.” ²³So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail. ^wLightning struck the earth, and the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt. ²⁴The hail, with lightning flashing through it, was so severe that nothing like it had occurred in the land of Egypt since it had become a nation. ²⁵Throughout the land of Egypt, the hail struck down everything in the field, both man and beast. The hail beat down every plant of the field and shattered every tree in the field.