Exodus 9

1Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: “Let my people go, that they may serve me.Cross-references: Ex 3:18 · Ex 4:22 · Ex 5:1 · Ex 8:1 · Ex 8:20 · Ex 9:13 · +1 more

2For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,Cross-references: Ex 4:23 · Ex 8:2 · Ex 10:4 · Lev 26:14 · Lev 26:23 · Lev 26:27 · +6 more

3behold, Yahweh’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.Cross-references: Ex 5:3 · Ex 7:4 · Ex 8:19 · 1Sam 5:6 · 1Sam 6:9 · Acts 13:11

4Yahweh 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.”’”Cross-references: Ex 8:22 · Ex 10:23 · Ex 12:13 · Isa 65:13 · Mal 3:18

5Yahweh appointed a set time, saying, “Tomorrow Yahweh shall do this thing in the land.”Cross-references: Ex 8:23 · Ex 9:18 · Ex 10:4 · Num 16:5 · Job 24:1 · Eccl 3:1 · +2 more

6Yahweh 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.Cross-references: Ex 9:19 · Ex 9:25 · Ps 78:48 · Ps 78:50

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.Cross-references: Ex 7:14 · Ex 8:32 · Ex 9:12 · Job 9:4 · Prov 29:1 · Isa 48:4 · +2 more

8Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron, “Take handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh.Cross-references: Ex 8:16

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.”Cross-references: Lev 13:18 · Deut 28:27 · Deut 28:35 · Job 2:7 · Rev 16:2

10They took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward the sky; and it became boils and blisters breaking out on man and on animal.Cross-references: Deut 28:27

11The magicians couldn’t stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians.Cross-references: Ex 7:11 · Ex 8:18 · Isa 47:12 · 2Tim 3:8 · Rev 16:2

12Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken to Moses.Cross-references: Ex 4:21 · Ex 7:13 · Ps 81:11 · Rev 16:10

13Yahweh said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: “Let my people go, that they may serve me.Cross-references: Ex 7:15 · Ex 8:20 · Ex 9:1

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.Cross-references: Ex 8:10 · Lev 26:18 · Lev 26:21 · Lev 26:28 · Deut 28:15 · Deut 28:59 · +13 more

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;Cross-references: Ex 3:20 · Ex 9:3 · Ex 9:6 · Ex 9:16 · Ex 11:4 · Ex 12:29 · +3 more

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,Cross-references: Ex 14:4 · Ex 14:17 · Ex 15:11 · Ex 18:11 · Josh 2:10 · 1Sam 4:8 · +13 more

17because you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won’t let them go.Cross-references: Job 9:4 · Job 15:25 · Job 40:9 · Isa 10:15 · Isa 26:11 · Isa 37:23 · +4 more

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.Cross-references: Ex 9:22 · 1Ki 19:2 · 1Ki 20:6 · 2Ki 7:1 · 2Ki 7:18 · Ps 83:15

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.”’”Cross-references: Hab 3:2

20Those who feared Yahweh’s word among the servants of Pharaoh made their servants and their livestock flee into the houses.Cross-references: Prov 13:13 · Prov 16:16 · Prov 22:3 · Prov 22:23 · Jonah 3:5 · Mark 13:14 · +1 more

21Whoever didn’t respect Yahweh’s word left his servants and his livestock in the field.Cross-references: Ex 7:23 · 1Sam 4:20 · 1Chr 22:19 · Job 7:17 · Job 34:14 · Prov 24:32 · +2 more

22Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward 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.”Cross-references: Ex 7:19 · Ex 8:5 · Ex 8:16 · Rev 16:21

23Moses stretched out his rod toward the heavens, and Yahweh sent thunder and hail; and lightning flashed down to the earth. Yahweh rained hail on the land of Egypt.Cross-references: Ex 19:16 · Ex 20:18 · Josh 10:11 · 1Sam 12:17 · Job 37:1 · Job 38:22 · +11 more

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.Cross-references: Ex 9:23 · Ex 10:6 · Matt 24:21

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.Cross-references: Ps 78:47 · Ps 105:32

26Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no hail.Cross-references: Ex 8:22 · Ex 9:4 · Ex 9:6 · Ex 10:23 · Ex 11:7 · Ex 12:13 · +1 more

27Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.Cross-references: Ex 10:16 · Num 22:34 · 1Sam 15:24 · 1Sam 15:30 · 1Sam 26:21 · 2Chr 12:6 · +8 more

28Pray to Yahweh; for there has been enough of mighty thunderings and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”Cross-references: Ex 8:8 · Ex 8:28 · Ex 10:17 · Ex 11:1 · Ps 29:3 · Acts 8:24

29Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to Yahweh. The thunders shall cease, and there will not be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is Yahweh’s.Cross-references: Ex 9:33 · Ex 19:5 · Deut 10:14 · 1Ki 8:22 · 1Ki 8:38 · 2Chr 6:12 · +10 more

30But as for you and your servants, I know that you don’t yet fear Yahweh God.”Cross-references: Prov 16:6 · Isa 26:10 · Isa 63:17

31The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley had ripened and the flax was blooming.Cross-references: Ruth 1:22 · Ruth 2:23 · Amos 4:9 · Hab 3:17

32But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they had not grown up.Cross-references: Ex 10:22

33Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread out his hands to Yahweh; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth.Cross-references: Ex 8:12 · Ex 9:29 · Ex 10:18 · James 5:17

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.Cross-references: Ex 4:21 · Ex 7:14 · Ex 8:15 · 2Chr 28:22 · 2Chr 33:23 · 2Chr 36:13 · +2 more

35The heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go, just as Yahweh had spoken through Moses.Cross-references: Ex 4:21