Exodus 9:13-26

13The Lord said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning, stand before Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: “Release my people so that they may serve me!

14For this time I will send all my plagues on your very self and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.

15For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with plague, and you would have been destroyed from the earth.

16But for this purpose I have caused you to stand: to show you my strength, and so that my name may be declared in all the earth.

17You are still exalting yourself against my people by not releasing them.

18I am going to cause very severe hail to rain down about this time tomorrow, such hail as has never occurred in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

19So now, send instructions to gather your livestock and all your possessions in the fields to a safe place. Every person or animal caught in the field and not brought into the house – the hail will come down on them, and they will die!”’”

20Those of Pharaoh’s servants who feared the word of the Lord hurried to bring their servants and livestock into the houses,

21but those who did not take the word of the Lord seriously left their servants and their cattle in the field.

22Then the Lord said to Moses, “Extend your hand toward the sky that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on people and on animals, and on everything that grows in the field in the land of Egypt.”

23When Moses extended his staff toward the sky, the Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire fell to the earth; so the Lord caused hail to rain down on the land of Egypt.

24Hail fell and fire mingled with the hail; the hail was so severe that there had not been any like it in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.

25The hail struck everything in the open fields, both people and animals, throughout all the land of Egypt. The hail struck everything that grows in the field, and it broke all the trees of the field to pieces.

26Only in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites lived, was there no hail.