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¹ And Jehovah said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh and speak to him, Thus says Jehovah the God of the Hebrews: Let My people go, that they may serve Me.

² And if you refuse to let them go, and still hold them,

³ behold, the hand of Jehovah will be upon your cattle in the field, upon the horses, upon the donkeys, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep; a very heavy pestilence.

⁴ And Jehovah 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.

⁵ And Jehovah appointed a set time, saying, Tomorrow Jehovah will do this thing in the land.

⁶ And Jehovah did this thing on the next day, and all the livestock of Egypt died; but of the livestock of the children of Israel, not one died.

⁷ And Pharaoh sent, and behold, not even one of the livestock of the Israelites was dead. And Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he did not let the people go.

⁸ And Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron, Take for yourselves handfuls of ashes from a furnace, and let Moses toss it toward the heavens before Pharaoh’s eyes.

⁹ And it shall become fine dust in all the land of Egypt, and it shall be an inflammation breaking out into boils upon man and beast throughout all the land of Egypt.

¹⁰ And they took ashes from the furnace and stood before Pharaoh, and Moses tossed them toward the heavens. And they became inflammations breaking out into boils upon man and beast.

¹¹ And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the inflammations, for the inflammations were upon the magicians and upon all the Egyptians.

¹² And Jehovah hardened the heart of Pharaoh; and he did not heed them, as Jehovah had spoken to Moses.

¹³ And Jehovah said to Moses, Rise early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh, and say to him, Thus says Jehovah the God of the Hebrews: Let My people go, that they may serve Me,

¹⁴ for at this time I will send all My plagues upon your heart, and upon your servants and upon your people, that you may come to understand that there is no one like Me in all the earth.

¹⁵ For if I had stretched forth My hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, then you would have been cut off from the earth.

¹⁶ And indeed for this purpose I have ordained you, to show My power in you, and to declare My name in all the earth.

¹⁷ As yet you exalt yourself against My people in that you will not let them go.

¹⁸ Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause very heavy hail to rain down, such as has not been in Egypt since its founding until now.

¹⁹ Therefore send now and gather your livestock and all that you have in the field, for the hail shall come down upon every man and every animal which is found in the field and is not brought into shelter; and they shall die.

²⁰ The ones who feared the word of Jehovah among the servants of Pharaoh made their servants and their livestock flee to the shelters.

²¹ But the ones who did not set their heart upon the word of Jehovah left their servants and their livestock in the field.

²² And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch forth your hand toward the heavens, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt; upon man, upon beast, and upon every plant of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.

²³ And Moses stretched forth his staff toward the heavens; and Jehovah sent thunder and hail, and fire went to the ground. And Jehovah rained hail upon the land of Egypt.

²⁴ So there was hail, and fire in the midst of the hail, so very heavy that there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

²⁵ And the hail struck throughout the whole land of Egypt, all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail struck every plant of the field and shattered every tree of the field.

²⁶ Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no hail.

²⁷ And Pharaoh sent and summoned Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have sinned this time. Jehovah is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

²⁸ Entreat Jehovah, that there be no more Divine thundering and hail, for it is enough. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.

²⁹ And Moses said to him, As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to Jehovah. The thunder shall cease, and there shall be no more hail; that you may know that the earth is Jehovah’s.

³⁰ But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear before Jehovah God.

³¹ Now the flax and the barley were struck, for the barley was in the head and the flax was in bud.

³² But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they are late crops.

³³ And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and spread out his hands to Jehovah. And the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth.

³⁴ And when Pharaoh saw that the rain, the hail, and the thunder had ceased, he sinned again, and hardened his heart; he and his servants.

³⁵ And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened; neither would he let the children of Israel go, as Jehovah had spoken by the hand of Moses.