Exodus 9 Then Yahweh said to Moses: Enter to Pharaoh, and speak to him, Thus says Yahweh, Elohim of the Hebrews: Dismiss My people that they may serve Me.

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Then Yahweh said to Moses: Enter to Pharaoh, and speak to him, Thus says Yahweh, Elohim of the Hebrews: Dismiss My people that they may serve Me. ² For if you refuse to dismiss them, and you still are holding fast to them, ³ behold, the hand of Yahweh is coming to be on your cattle which are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the herd and on the flock, with an exceedingly heavy plague. ⁴ Yet Yahweh will distinguish between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt; not a thing shall die of all belonging to the sons of Israel. ⁵ So Yahweh made an appointment, saying: Tomorrow Yahweh shall do this thing in the land. ⁶ And Yahweh did this thing on the morrow. All the cattle of the Egyptians died, yet of the cattle of the sons of Israel not one died. ⁷ Then Pharaoh sent, and behold, not even one had died from the cattle of Israel. Yet the heart of Pharaoh gloried, and he did not dismiss the people. ⁸ Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron: Take for yourselves both of your hands full of limekiln quicklime, and Moses will sprinkle it toward the heavens, before the eyes of Pharaoh, ⁹ and it will become powder over all the land of Egypt. Then there will come to be on human and on beast, boils, budding out into pustules, in all the land of Egypt. ¹⁰ So they took the limekiln quicklime and stood before Pharaoh. And Moses sprinkled it toward the heavens, and there came to be boils, budding out into pustules on human and on beast. ¹¹ Now the sacred scribes were unable to stand before Moses in view of the boils, for the boil came to be on the sacred scribes and on all Egypt. ¹² Yet Yahweh made the heart of Pharaoh steadfast, so that he did not hearken to them just as Yahweh had spoken to Moses. ¹³ Then Yahweh said to Moses: Rise early in the morning, station yourself before Pharaoh, and say to him, Thus says Yahweh, Elohim of the Hebrews: Dismiss My people that they may serve Me. ¹⁴ For at this time I am sending all My strokes onto your heart and your servants and your people in order that you shall know that there is no one such as Me in the entire earth. ¹⁵ For by now I could have put forth My hand and smitten you and your people with the plague so that you were suppressed from the land. ¹⁶ Howbeit, for this sake I keep you standing, in order to make you see My vigor, and that My name may be related in the entire earth. ¹⁷ Still you are heaping yourself up against My people so as not to dismiss them. ¹⁸ Behold Me causing it to rain about this time tomorrow an exceedingly heavy hail such as has not come in Egypt from the day of her founding until now. ¹⁹ And now send, bring your cattle under strong shelter and all that you have in the field. Every human and beast which is found in the field and is not gathered toward the house, on them the hail will descend, and they shall die. ²⁰ The one fearful of the word of Yahweh among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee to the houses. ²¹ Yet he who was not setting his heart on the word of Yahweh, forsook his servants and his cattle in the field. ²² Yahweh said to Moses: Stretch out your hand to the heavens that hail may come to be in all the land of Egypt, on human and on beast and on all herbage of the field in the land of Egypt. ²³ So Moses stretched out his rod to the heavens, and Yahweh, He gave thundering sounds and hail, and fire ran earthward. Thus Yahweh rained hail over the land of Egypt. ²⁴ And the hail came with fire taking hold of itself in the midst of the hail, exceedingly heavy, such as had not come in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. ²⁵ Now the hail smote in all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, from human unto beast. Also the hail smote all herbage of the field and broke every tree of the field. ²⁶ But in the land of Goshen, where the sons of Israel were, no hail came. ²⁷ Then Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and for Aaron and said to them: I have sinned this time. Yahweh is the righteous One, and I and my people are the wicked. ²⁸ Make an entreaty to Yahweh, for this is enough of there coming to be thundering sounds of Elohim and hail. Let me dismiss you; you shall not continue to stay. ²⁹ Moses said to him: As I go forth from the city I shall spread my palms to Yahweh, and the thundering sounds shall halt, and the hail shall come no longer, so that you may know that the earth is Yahweh's. ³⁰ As for you and your servants, I know that you are not yet fearing because of the presence of Yahweh Elohim. ³¹ (And the flax and the barley were smitten, for the barley was pollinated, and the flax was in pod;" ³² yet the wheat and the spelt were not smitten, for they were in blade.. ³³ When Moses went from Pharaoh from the city, and he spread his palms to Yahweh, then the thundering sounds halted, and the hail and the rain was not poured forth earthward. ³⁴ Now Pharaoh saw that the rain, the hail and the thundering sounds had halted, yet he continued to sin and made his heart glory, he and his servants. ³⁵ So the heart of Pharaoh was steadfast, and he did not dismiss the sons of Israel, just as Yahweh had spoken by means of Moses.