Exodus Chapter 9    

¹Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: “Let my people go, that they may serve me.
  ²For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,
  ³behold, the hand of Yahweh is on your livestock that are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds, and on the flocks with a very grievous pestilence.
  ⁴Yahweh will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, and nothing will die of all that belongs to the children of Israel.”’”
  ⁵Yahweh appointed a set time, saying, “Tomorrow Yahweh will do this thing in the land.”
  ⁶Yahweh did that thing on the next day. And all the livestock of Egypt died, but of the livestock of the children of Israel not one died.
  ⁷Pharaoh sent, and behold, there was not so much as one of the livestock of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was unyielding, and he did not let the people go.
 

⁸Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron, “Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.
  ⁹It will become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and will be a boil breaking out with boils on man and on animal throughout all the land of Egypt.”
  ¹⁰They took ashes of the furnace and stood before Pharaoh. And Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven, and it became a boil breaking out with boils on man and on animal.
  ¹¹The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians.
  ¹²And Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh and he did not listen to them, just as Yahweh had spoken to Moses.
 

¹³Yahweh said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: “Let my people go, that they may serve me.
  ¹⁴For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart, against your officials, and against your people, that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.
  ¹⁵For now I would have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth.
  ¹⁶But indeed for this cause I have allowed you to remain to show you my power, and so that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.
  ¹⁷You are still exalting yourself against my people in that you will not let them go.
  ¹⁸Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now.
  ¹⁹Now therefore command that all of your livestock and all that you have in the field be brought into shelter. Every man and animal that is found in the field and isn’t brought home, the hail will come down on them and they will die.”’”
  ²⁰Those who feared the word of Yahweh among the servants of Pharaoh made their servants and their livestock flee into the houses.
  ²¹Whoever didn’t respect the word of Yahweh left his servants and his livestock in the field.
 

²²Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man and on animal and on every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.”
  ²³And Moses stretched out his staff toward the heavens, and Yahweh sent thunder, hail, and lightning flashed down to the earth. Yahweh rained hail on the land of Egypt.
  ²⁴So there was very severe hail and lightning mixed with the hail, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
  ²⁵The hail struck throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and animal. And the hail struck every herb of the field and broke every tree of the field.
  ²⁶Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no hail.
 

²⁷Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron and said to them, “I have sinned this time; Yahweh is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
  ²⁸Pray to Yahweh, for there has been enough of mighty thunderings and hail. I will let you go, and you will stay no longer.”
 

²⁹Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands to Yahweh. The thunders will cease, neither will there be any more hail, that you may know that the earth is Yahweh’s.
  ³⁰But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear Yahweh God.”
 

³¹The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bloom.
  ³²But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they had not grown up.
 

³³Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and spread abroad his hands to Yahweh, and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth.
  ³⁴When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned again and made his heart unyielding, both he and his servants.
  ³⁵And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the children of Israel go, just as Yahweh had spoken through Moses.