Exodus 9:13–21

The Seventh Plague: Thunder and Hail

¹³Then the Lord said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning and present yourself before Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: Let my people go, so that they may serve me.^{* 14}For this time I will send all my plagues upon you yourself, your officials, and your people, so that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.^{* 15}Indeed, by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth.^{* 16}But this is why I have let you live: to show you my power and to make my name resound through all the earth.^{* 17}You are still exalting yourself against my people by not letting them go. ¹⁸Tomorrow at this time I will cause the heaviest hail to fall that has ever fallen in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.^{* 19}Send, therefore, and have your livestock and everything that you have in the open field brought to a secure place; every human or animal that is in the open field and is not brought under shelter will die when the hail comes down upon them.’ ” ²⁰Those officials of Pharaoh who feared the word of the Lord hurried their slaves and livestock off to a secure place,^{* 21}but those who did not regard the word of the Lord left their slaves and livestock in the open field.