Exodus 9:23–35

²³And Moses stretched out his rod toward heaven; and ^ythe Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire darted to the ground. And the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt. ²⁴So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, so very heavy that there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. ²⁵And the ^zhail struck throughout the whole land of Egypt, all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail struck every herb of the field and broke every tree of the field. ^26aOnly in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no hail.

²⁷And Pharaoh sent and ^bcalled for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, ^c“I have sinned this time. ^dThe Lord is righteous, and my people and I are wicked. ^28eEntreat ¹the Lord, that there may be no more ²mighty thundering and hail, for it is enough. I will let you ^fgo, and you shall stay no longer.”

²⁹So Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will ^gspread out my hands to the Lord; the thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, that you may know that the ^hearth is the Lord’s. ³⁰But as for you and your servants, ⁱI know that you will not yet fear the Lord God.”

³¹Now the flax and the barley were struck, ^jfor the barley was in the head and the flax was in bud. ³²But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they are ³late crops.

³³So Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and ^kspread out his hands to the Lord; then the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth. ³⁴And when Pharaoh saw that the rain, the hail, and the thunder had ceased, he sinned yet more; and he hardened his heart, he and his servants. ³⁵So ^lthe heart of Pharaoh was hard; neither would he let the children of Israel go, as the Lord had spoken by Moses.