¹Then the LORD said to Moses , “Go in to Pharaoh , and tell him , ‘This is what the LORD , 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 LORD ’s hand is on your livestock which 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 .

⁴The LORD will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt ; and nothing shall die of all that belongs to the children of Israel .”’”

⁵The LORD appointed a set time , saying , “Tomorrow the LORD shall do this thing in the land.”

⁶The LORD 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 stubborn, and he didn’t let the people go .

⁸The LORD said to Moses and to Aaron, “Take handfuls of ashes of the furnace , and let Moses sprinkle it towards the sky in the sight of Pharaoh .

⁹It shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt , and shall be boils and blisters breaking out 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 towards the sky ; and it became boils and blisters breaking out on man and on animal .

¹¹The magicians couldn’t stand before Moses because of the boils ; for the boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians .

¹²The LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh , and he didn’t listen to them , as the LORD had spoken to Moses .

¹³The LORD said to Moses , “Rise up early in the morning , and stand before Pharaoh , and tell him , ‘This is what the LORD , 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 no one 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 made you stand : to show you my power , and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth,

¹⁷because you still exalt yourself against my people , that you won’t 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 . The hail will come down on every man and animal that is found in the field , and isn’t brought home , and they will die .”’”

²⁰Those who feared the LORD ’s word amongst the servants of Pharaoh made their servants and their livestock flee into the houses .

²¹Whoever didn’t respect the LORD ’s word left his servants and his livestock in the field .

²²The LORD said to Moses , “Stretch out your hand towards the sky , 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 .”

²³Moses stretched out his rod towards the heavens , and the LORD sent thunder and hail ; and lightning flashed down to the earth . The LORD 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 . The LORD is righteous , and I and my people are wicked .

²⁸Pray to the LORD ; for there has been enough of mighty thunderings and hail . I will let you go , and you shall 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 thunders shall cease , and there will not be any more hail ; that you may know that the earth is the LORD ’s.

³⁰But as for you and your servants , I know that you don’t yet fear the LORD God .”

³¹The flax and the barley were struck , for the barley had ripened and the flax was blooming.

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 out his hands to the LORD ; 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 had ceased , he sinned yet more , and hardened his heart , he and his servants .

³⁵The heart of Pharaoh was hardened , and he didn’t let the children of Israel go , just as the LORD had spoken through Moses .