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5 Then the LORD appointed a set time, saying, rain down, such as has not been in Egypt since
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“Tomorrow the LORD will do this thing in the its founding until now. Therefore send now
land.” and gather your livestock and all that you have
6 So the LORD did this thing on the next day, in the field, for the hail shall come down on
and all the livestock of Egypt died; but of the every man and every animal which is found in
livestock of the children of Israel, not one the field and is not brought home; and they
died. Then Pharaoh sent, and indeed, not shall die.” ’ ”
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even one of the livestock of the Israelites was 20 He who feared the word of the LORD
dead. But the heart of Pharaoh became hard, among the servants of Pharaoh made his ser-
and he did not let the people go. vants and his livestock flee to the houses. But
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8 So the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, he who did not regard the word of the LORD
“Take for yourselves handfuls of ashes from a left his servants and his livestock in the field.
furnace, and let Moses scatter it toward the 22 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out
heavens in the sight of Pharaoh. And it will your hand toward heaven, that there may be
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become fine dust in all the land of Egypt, and hail in all the land of Egypt—on man, on beast,
it will cause boils that break out in sores on and on every herb of the field, throughout the
man and beast throughout all the land of land of Egypt.” And Moses stretched out his
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Egypt.” Then they took ashes from the fur- rod toward heaven; and the LORD sent thunder
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nace and stood before Pharaoh, and Moses and hail, and fire darted to the ground. And
scattered them toward heaven. And they the LORD rained hail on the land of Egypt. So
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caused boils that break out in sores on man there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail,
and beast. And the magicians could not stand so very heavy that there was none like it in all
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before Moses because of the boils, for the the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
boils were on the magicians and on all the 25 And the hail struck throughout the whole
Egyptians. But the LORD hardened the heart land of Egypt, all that was in the field, both
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of Pharaoh; and he did not heed them, just as man and beast; and the hail struck every herb
the LORD had spoken to Moses.
of the field and broke every tree of the field.
26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the chil-
dren of Israel were, there was no hail.
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And Pharaoh sent and called for Moses
and Aaron, and said to them, “I have sinned
9:14 My plagues. God’s use of the possessive
pronoun specified what should have become this time. The LORD is righteous, and my peo-
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abundantly clear to Pharaoh by then, namely, ple and I are wicked. Entreat the LORD, that
that these were God’s own workings. to your there may be no more mighty thundering and
very heart. “To send to the very heart” was hail, for it is enough. I will let you go, and you
apparently a colloquial expression denoting shall stay no longer.”
someone’s being made to feel the full force of 29 So Moses said to him, “As soon as I have
an act, to feel it strike home! gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands
to the LORD; the thunder will cease, and there
will be no more hail, that you may know that
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13 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Rise early the earth is the LORD’s. But as for you and
in the morning and stand before Pharaoh, and your servants, I know that you will not yet fear
say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD God of the He- the LORD God.”
31 Now the flax and the barley were struck,
brews: “Let My people go, that they may serve
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Me, for at this time I will send all My plagues for the barley was in the head and the flax was
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to your very heart, and on your servants and in bud. But the wheat and the spelt were not
on your people, that you may know that there struck, for they are late crops.
is none like Me in all the earth. Now if I had 33 So Moses went out of the city from
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stretched out My hand and struck you and Pharaoh and spread out his hands to the
your people with pestilence, then you would LORD; then the thunder and the hail ceased,
have been cut off from the earth. But indeed and the rain was not poured on the earth.
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for this purpose I have raised you up, that I 34 And when Pharaoh saw that the rain, the
may show My power in you, and that My hail, and the thunder had ceased, he sinned
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name may be declared in all the earth. As yet yet more; and he hardened his heart, he and
you exalt yourself against My people in that his servants. So the heart of Pharaoh was
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you will not let them go. Behold, tomorrow hard; neither would he let the children of
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about this time I will cause very heavy hail to Israel go, as the LORD had spoken by Moses.
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