Exodus 9:23–35

²³And Moses stretched out his staff to the heavens, and Yahweh gave thunderⁱ and hail, and fire went to the earth, and Yahweh caused hail to rain on the land of Egypt. ²⁴And there was hail, and fire was flashing back and forth in the midst of the very severe hail, the like of which was not in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation. ²⁵And the hail struck in all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, from human to animal, and the hail struck all the vegetation of the field and smashed every tree of the field. ²⁶Only in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites^j were, there was no hail.

²⁷And Pharaoh sent and called Moses and Aaron and said to them, “I have sinned this time. Yahweh is the righteous one, and I and my people are the wicked ones. ²⁸Pray to Yahweh. The thunder of God and hail are enough,^k and I will release you, and you will no longer have to stay.”^{l 29}And Moses said to him, “At my leaving the city, I will spread out my hands to Yahweh. The thunder will stop, and the hail will be no more, so that you will know that the earth belongs to Yahweh. ³⁰But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear the presence of Yahweh God.”

³¹And the flax and the barley were struck, because the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud. ³²But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, because they are late-ripening.

³³And Moses went from Pharaoh out of the city, and he spread his hands to Yahweh, and the thunder and the hail stopped, and rain did not pour on the earth. ³⁴And Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder stopped, and he again sinned^m and made his heart insensitive,ⁿ he and his servants. ³⁵And Pharaoh’s heart was hard, and he did not release the Israelites,^o as Yahweh had said by the agency of Moses.^p