Bible Time

¹THEN Yahvah said to Moses, Go to Pharaoh and say to him, Thus says Yahvah God of the Hebrews, Let my people go that they may serve me. ²For if you refuse to let them go, and until now you have withheld them, ³Look, Yahvah will strike your cattle which are in the desert, the horses, the donkeys, the camels, the oxen, and the sheep; there will be a very severe plague. ⁴And Yahvah will discriminate between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of the Egyptians, so that none of the cattle that belong to the children of Israel will die, not even one. ⁵And Yahvah appointed a set time, saying, Tomorrow Yahvah will do this thing in the land. ⁶And Yahvah did that thing the next day, and all the cattle of the Egyptians died; but of the cattle of the children of Israel not one died. ⁷And Pharaoh sent, and look, there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened and he did not let the people go.

⁸And Yahvah said to Moses and to Aaron, Take 2 handfuls of the ashes of the furnace and let Moses scatter it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh. ⁹And it will become fine dust in all the land of Egypt, and there will be boils breaking forth with sores on men, and on cattle, throughout all the land of Egypt. ¹⁰So they took ashes of the furnace and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses scattered it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh; and it became blistering boils, breaking out with sores on men, and on cattle. ¹¹And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boils had spread among the magicians and throughout all the land of Egypt. ¹²And Yahvah hardened the heart of Pharaoh and he did not listen to them, as Yahvah had said to Moses.

¹³And Yahvah said to Moses, Arise early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say to him, Thus says Yahvah God of the Hebrews, Let my people go that they may serve me. ¹⁴For this time I will send my plague on your heart and on your servants and on your people, that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth. ¹⁵For now I will stretch out my hand that I may strike you and your people with pestilence; and you will perish from the earth. ¹⁶But for this cause I have raised you to the throne, to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth. ¹⁷As yet you are continuing to detain this people and refusing to let them go. ¹⁸Look, tomorrow, about this time, I will cause a severe storm of hail, such as there has not been in Egypt from the day that it was founded even until now. ¹⁹Send therefore now, and gather your cattle, and all that you have in the field; for on every man and the cattle which be found in the field, and will not be brought home, the hail will come down on them, and they will die. ²⁰He who feared the word of Yahvah among the servants of Pharaoh brought his servants and his cattle into the house. ²¹But he who did not regard the word of Yahvah left his servants and his cattle in the field.

²²And Yahvah said to Moses, Lift up your hand toward heaven that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on men and on cattle and on all the grass in the field, throughout the land of Egypt. ²³And Moses lifted up his staff toward heaven; and Yahvah sent thunder and hail, and lightning ran along on the ground; and Yahvah showered hail on the land of Egypt. ²⁴So there was hail, and flaming fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as had never been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. ²⁵And the hail struck throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and cattle; and the hail destroyed all the herbs of the field and broke every tree of the field. ²⁶Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel lived, was there no hail. ²⁷Then Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have sinned this time; Yahvah is righteous, and I and my people are wicked. ²⁸Pray before Yahvah, for there is yet a chance for forgiveness in his presence that there not be mighty thunderings and hail any longer; and I will let you go, and you will stay no longer. ²⁹And Moses said to him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will stretch forth my hands to Yahvah; and the thunder will cease and there will not be hail any longer, that you may know that the earth belongs to Yahvah. ³⁰But as for you and your servants, I know that you have not yet feared Yahvah God. ³¹And the flax and the barley were lost; for the barley was in the ear and the flax was boiled. ³²But the wheat and the rye were not lost; for they were sown late. ³³And Moses went out of the city from the presence of Pharaoh, and spread out his hands to Yahvah; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth. ³⁴And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders had ceased, he sinned yet more, and his heart was hardened, and the heart of his servants. ³⁵And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened and he did not let the children of Israel go, as Yahvah had sent word to him by Moses.