Exodus 9:22-35

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²² Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand towards heaven, so that there may be ^(A)hail in all the land of Egypt, on man and beast and every plant of the field, in the land of Egypt.” ²³ Then Moses stretched out his staff towards heaven, and the ^(B)Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth. And the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt. ²⁴ There was hail and fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, very heavy hail, such as had never been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. ²⁵ The hail struck down everything that was in the field in all the land of Egypt, both man and beast. And the hail ^(C)struck down every plant of the field and broke every tree of the field. ^26 (D)Only in the land of Goshen, where the people of Israel were, was there no hail.

²⁷ Then Pharaoh sent and called Moses and Aaron and said to them, “This time ^(E)I have sinned; the ^(F)Lord is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong. ^28 (G)Plead with the Lord, for there has been enough of God's thunder and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.” ²⁹ Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, ^(H)I will stretch out my hands to the Lord. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that ^(I)the earth is the Lord's. ³⁰ But as for you and your servants, ^(J)I know that you do not yet fear the Lord God.” ³¹ (The flax and the barley were struck down, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud. ³² But the wheat and the emmer^[a] were not struck down, for they are late in coming up.) ³³ So Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and ^(K)stretched out his hands to the Lord, and the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured upon the earth. ³⁴ But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned yet again and ^(L)hardened his heart, ^(M)he and his servants. ³⁵ So ^(N)the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people of Israel go, just as the Lord had spoken through Moses.