The Seventh Plague: Hail

13 Then the Lord said to Moses, (A)“Rise early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh, and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord God of the Hebrews: “Let My people go, that they may (B)serve Me, 14 for at this time I will send all My plagues to your very heart, and on your servants and on your people, (C)that you may know that there is none like Me in all the earth. 15 Now if I had (D)stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with (E)pestilence, then you would have been cut off from the earth. 16 But indeed for (F)this purpose I have raised you up, that I may (G)show My power in you, and that My (H)name may be declared in all the earth.

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The Plague of Hail

13 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(A) me, 14 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(B) that there is no one like(C) me in all the earth. 15 For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people(D) with a plague that would have wiped you off the earth. 16 But I have raised you up[a] for this very purpose,(E) that I might show you my power(F) and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 9:16 Or have spared you