Exodus 9:23–35

²³Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, and the Lord ¹sent ²thunder and ^ahail, and fire ran down to the earth. And the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt.

²⁴So there was hail, and fire ¹flashing continually in the midst of the hail, very severe, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

^25aThe hail struck all that was in the field through all the land of Egypt, both man and beast; the hail also struck every plant of the field and shattered every tree of the field.

^26aOnly in the land of Goshen, where the sons of Israel were, there was no hail.

²⁷Then Pharaoh ^1asent for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “^bI have sinned this time; the Lord is the righteous one, and I and my people are the wicked ones.

²⁸“^aMake supplication to the Lord, for there has been enough of God’s ¹thunder and hail; and ^bI will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”

²⁹Moses said to him, “As soon as I go out of the city, I will ^aspread out my ¹hands to the Lord; the ²thunder will cease and there will be hail no longer, that you may know that ^bthe earth is the Lord’s.

³⁰“^aBut as for you and your servants, I know that ^byou do not yet ¹fear ²the Lord God.”

³¹(Now the flax and the ^abarley were ¹ruined, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud.

³²But the wheat and the spelt were not ¹ruined, for they ripen late.)

^33aSo Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread out his ¹hands to the Lord; and the ²thunder and the hail ceased, and rain ³no longer poured on the earth.

³⁴But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the ¹thunder had ceased, he sinned again and ²hardened his heart, he and his servants.

³⁵Pharaoh’s heart was ¹hardened, and he did not let the sons of Israel go, just as the ^aLord had spoken through Moses.