Exodus 9:10   (Read all of Exodus 9)

So they took soot from a furnace and stood before Pharaoh. Moses tossed it into the air, and festering boils broke out on people and animals.

Exodus 9:11   (Read all of Exodus 9)

The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils that were on them and on all the Egyptians.

Exodus 9:12   (Read all of Exodus 9)

But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart and he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had said to Moses.

Exodus 9:13   (Read all of Exodus 9)

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Get up early in the morning, confront Pharaoh and say to him, 'This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me,

Exodus 9:14   (Read all of Exodus 9)

or this time I will send the full force of my plagues against you and against your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.

Exodus 9:15   (Read all of Exodus 9)

For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with a plague that would have wiped you off the earth.

Exodus 9:16   (Read all of Exodus 9)

But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might show you my power and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.

Exodus 9:17   (Read all of Exodus 9)

You still set yourself against my people and will not let them go.

Exodus 9:18   (Read all of Exodus 9)

Therefore, at this time tomorrow I will send the worst hailstorm that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded till now.

Exodus 9:19   (Read all of Exodus 9)

Give an order now to bring your livestock and everything you have in the field to a place of shelter, because the hail will fall on every person and animal that has not been brought in and is still out in the field, and they will die.' "

Exodus 9:20   (Read all of Exodus 9)

Those officials of Pharaoh who feared the word of the Lord hurried to bring their slaves and their livestock inside.

Exodus 9:21   (Read all of Exodus 9)

But those who ignored the word of the Lord left their slaves and livestock in the field.

Exodus 9:22   (Read all of Exodus 9)

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that hail will fall all over Egypt-on people and animals and on everything growing in the fields of Egypt."

Exodus 9:23   (Read all of Exodus 9)

When Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, the Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightning flashed down to the ground. So the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt;

Exodus 9:24   (Read all of Exodus 9)

hail fell and lightning flashed back and forth. It was the worst storm in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.

Exodus 9:25   (Read all of Exodus 9)

Throughout Egypt hail struck everything in the fields-both people and animals; it beat down everything growing in the fields and stripped every tree.

Exodus 9:27   (Read all of Exodus 9)

Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron. "This time I have sinned," he said to them. "The Lord is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong.

Exodus 9:28   (Read all of Exodus 9)

Pray to the Lord, for we have had enough thunder and hail. I will let you go; you don't have to stay any longer."

Exodus 9:29   (Read all of Exodus 9)

Moses replied, "When I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands in prayer to the Lord. The thunder will stop and there will be no more hail, so you may know that the earth is the Lord's.

Exodus 9:30   (Read all of Exodus 9)

But I know that you and your officials still do not fear the Lord God."

Exodus 9:31   (Read all of Exodus 9)

(The flax and barley were destroyed, since the barley had headed and the flax was in bloom.

Exodus 9:32   (Read all of Exodus 9)

The wheat and spelt, however, were not destroyed, because they ripen later.)

Exodus 9:33   (Read all of Exodus 9)

Then Moses left Pharaoh and went out of the city. He spread out his hands toward the Lord; the thunder and hail stopped, and the rain no longer poured down on the land.

Exodus 9:34   (Read all of Exodus 9)

When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder had stopped, he sinned again: He and his officials hardened their hearts.