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Exodus 9:13-35 — The Seventh Plague: Hail

Exod.9.13-35

¹³Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Rise early in the morning, stand before Pharaoh, and say to him, 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews: Let my people go, so that they may serve me.' ¹⁴For this time I am sending all my plagues against you personally, and against your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth. ¹⁵For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth. ¹⁶But for this reason I have let you remain: to show you my power, and so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth. ¹⁷Do you still set yourself against my people by not letting them go? ¹⁸Behold, about this time tomorrow I will rain down very heavy hail, such as has never been in Egypt from the day it was founded until now. ¹⁹So now send word and bring your livestock and everything you have in the field under shelter. Every person and animal found in the field and not brought into the house—when the hail falls on them, they will die.' ²⁰Whoever among Pharaoh's servants feared Yahweh's word hurried his servants and his livestock into the houses. ²¹But whoever did not take Yahweh's word to heart left his servants and his livestock in the field. ²²Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, so that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt—upon man and beast and upon every plant of the field throughout the land of Egypt.” ²³So Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, and Yahweh sent thunder and hail, and fire flashed down to the earth. Thus Yahweh rained hail upon the land of Egypt. ²⁴So there was hail, with fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail , very heavy—such as had never been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. ²⁵The hail struck throughout all the land of Egypt everything that was in the field, from man to beast. The hail struck every plant of the field and shattered every tree of the field. ²⁶Only in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites were, was there no hail. ²⁷Then Pharaoh sent and called Moses and Aaron and said to them, “I have sinned this time. Yahweh is the righteous one, and I and my people are the wicked ones.” ²⁸Plead with Yahweh, for there has been enough of God's thunder and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer." ²⁹Moses said to him, "As soon as I leave the city, I will spread out my hands to Yahweh. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth belongs to Yahweh. ³⁰But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear Yahweh God." ³¹Now the flax and the barley were ruined, because the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud. ³²But the wheat and the spelt were not ruined, because they ripen late. ³³Then Moses went out from Pharaoh, out of the city, and spread out his hands to Yahweh. Then the thunder and the hail ceased, and rain no longer poured down upon the earth. ³⁴But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned again and made his heart stubborn, he and his servants. ³⁵So Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he did not let the Israelites go, just as Yahweh had spoken through Moses .

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4/11/2026

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