The Plague of Hail – Exodus – The Brick Bible

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Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Get up early in the morning and confront Pharaoh. Say to him, "Yahweh, God of the Hebrews, says this: Let my people go and worship me."'

1 of 17 Exodus 9:13

'For this time I am going to inflict all my plagues on you, on your officials, and on your subjects, so that you will know that there is no one like me in the whole world.'

2 of 17 Exodus 9:14

'Had I stretched out my hand to strike you and your subjects with pestilence, you would have been swept from the earth.'

3 of 17 Exodus 9:15

'But I have let you survive for this reason: to display my power to you and to have my name talked of throughout the world.'

4 of 17 Exodus 9:16

'At about this time tomorrow, I shall cause so severe a hail to fall as was never known in Egypt from the day of its foundation until now.'

5 of 17 Exodus 9:18

'So now send word to have your livestock and everything else you own in the fields put under cover.'

6 of 17 Exodus 9:19

'On man or beast, all that happen to be in the fields and are not brought indoors, the hail will fall and they will die.'

7 of 17 Exodus 9:19

Those of Pharaoh's officials who respected what Pharaoh said , brought their slaves and livestock indoors.

8 of 17 Exodus 9:20

But those who did not take to heart what Yahweh said left their slaves and livestock in the field.

9 of 17 Exodus 9:20

Moses stretched out his staff towards heaven...

10 of 17 Exodus 9:23

...and Yahweh thundered and rained down hail. All over Egypt the hail struck down everything in the fields, both man and beast...

11 of 17 Exodus 9:25

...and broke all the trees in the fields.

12 of 17 Exodus 9:25

Pharaoh then sent for Moses and Aaron and said, 'This time I have sinned. Yahweh is in the right; I and my subjects are in the wrong. Pray to Yahweh, for we cannot bear any more of this thunder and hail.'

13 of 17 Exodus 9:27–28

'I promise to let you go. You need stay no longer.'

14 of 17 Exodus 9:28

Moses said to him, 'I shall stretch out my hands to Yahweh. The thunder will stop and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth belongs to Yahweh.'

15 of 17 Exodus 9:29

'But as for you and your officials, I know very well that you do not yet fear Yahweh God.'

16 of 17 Exodus 9:30

When Pharaoh saw that rain and hail and thunder had stopped, he relapsed into sin, and he and his officials became obstinate again, and as Yahweh had foretold, refused to let the Israelites go.

17 of 17 Exodus 9:34–35

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