1Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, 'This is what the LORD God of the Hebrews says: Let my people go, so that they may serve me.'"
2"'For if you refuse to let them go, and keep holding them back,"
3look, the hand of the LORD will be on your livestock in the field, on the horses, the donkeys, the camels, the oxen, and the sheep. There will be a very terrible disease.
4"And the LORD will make a difference between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt. Nothing that belongs to the children of Israel will die.'"
5And the LORD set a time, saying, "Tomorrow the LORD will do this thing in the land."
6The next day the LORD did that thing, and all the livestock of Egypt died. But of the livestock of the children of Israel not one died.
7Pharaoh sent men to look, and, look, not one of the livestock of the Israelites was dead. But Pharaoh's heart was hard, and he did not let the people go.
8Then the LORD said to Moses and to Aaron, "Take handfuls of ashes from the furnace, and let Moses throw them up toward the sky while Pharaoh watches."
9"They will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt. They will cause boils that break out in sores on people and on animals, through all the land of Egypt."
10So they took ashes from the furnace and stood in front of Pharaoh. Moses threw them up toward the sky, and they became boils that broke out in sores on people and on animals.
11The magicians could not stand in front of Moses because of the boils, for the boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians.
12But the LORD made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he did not listen to them, just as the LORD had said to Moses.
13Then the LORD said to Moses, "Get up early in the morning, and stand in front of Pharaoh, and say to him, 'This is what the LORD God of the Hebrews says: Let my people go, so that they may serve me."
14For this time I will send all my plagues on your own heart, and on your servants, and on your people. Then you will know that there is no one like me in all the earth.
15For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with disease, and you would have been wiped off the earth.
16But for this very reason I have raised you up: to show my power in you, and so that my name may be told through all the earth.
17Do you still lift yourself up against my people, and refuse to let them go?
18Look, tomorrow about this time I will send down a very terrible hail, such as has not been in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.
19"So send now, and bring in your livestock, and everything you have in the field. The hail will come down on every person and animal that is found in the field and is not brought home, and they will die.'"
20Among Pharaoh's servants, the one who feared the word of the LORD made his servants and his livestock run into the houses.
21But the one who paid no attention to the word of the LORD left his servants and his livestock in the field.
22And the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, so that hail may fall on all the land of Egypt, on people, and on animals, and on every plant of the field, through all the land of Egypt."
23So Moses stretched out his rod toward the sky. The LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire ran along the ground. The LORD rained hail on the land of Egypt.
24So there was hail, and fire mixed with the hail, very terrible. There had been nothing like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
25Through all the land of Egypt the hail struck everything that was in the field, both people and animals. The hail struck every plant 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.
27Then Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, "This time I have sinned. The LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked."
28"Pray to the LORD, for it is enough, that there may be no more great thunder 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 out my hands to the LORD. The thunder will stop, and there will be no more hail. Then you may know that the earth belongs to the LORD."
30"But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear the LORD God."
31The flax and the barley were ruined, for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bud.
32But the wheat and the rye were not ruined, for they had not come up yet.
33So Moses went out of the city, away from Pharaoh, and spread out his hands to the LORD. The thunder and hail stopped, and the rain no longer poured down on the earth.
34When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had stopped, he sinned still more, and made his heart hard, he and his servants.