¹⁸Therefore, at this time tomorrow I will send the worst hailstorm^y that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded till now.^z ¹⁹Give an order now to bring your livestock and everything you have in the field to a place of shelter, because the hail will fall on every person and animal that has not been brought in and is still out in the field, and they will die.’ ”

²⁰Those officials of Pharaoh who feared^a the word of the Lord hurried to bring their slaves and their livestock inside. ²¹But those who ignored^b the word of the Lord left their slaves and livestock in the field.

²²Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that hail will fall all over Egypt—on people and animals and on everything growing in the fields of Egypt.” ²³When Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, the Lord sent thunder^c and hail,^d and lightning flashed down to the ground. So the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt; ²⁴hail fell and lightning flashed back and forth. It was the worst storm in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.^e ²⁵Throughout Egypt hail struck everything in the fields—both people and animals; it beat down everything growing in the fields and stripped every tree.^f

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Cross references

yver 23; Jos 10:11; Ps 78:47–48; 105:32; 148:8; Isa 30:30; Eze 38:22; Hag 2:17
zver 24; Ex 10:6
a Pr 13:13
bSee Ge 19:14; Eze 33:4–5
c Ex 20:18; 1 Sa 7:10; 12:17; Ps 18:13; 29:3; 68:33; 77:17; 104:7
dSee ver 18; Rev 8:7; 16:21
eSee ver 18
f Ps 105:32–33; Eze 13:13