Exodus 9

¹ Then the LORDthe LORD saidsaid to MosesMoses, GoGo in to PharaohPharaoh, and telltell him, Thus saithsaith the LORDthe LORD GodGod of the HebrewsHebrews, Let my people GoGo, that they may serveserve me.

² For if thou shalt refuse to let them gogo, and wilt hold them still,

³ Behold, the handhand of the LORDthe LORD is upon thy cattlecattle which are in the fieldfield, upon the horseshorses, upon the assesasses, upon the camelscamels, upon the oxenoxen, and upon the sheepsheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain.

⁴ And the LORDthe LORD shall sever between the cattlecattle of IsraelIsrael, and the cattlecattle of EgyptEgypt: and there shall nothing diedie of all that belongs to the childrenchildren of IsraelIsrael.

⁵ And the LORDthe LORD appointed a set time, saying, To-morrowmorrow the LORDthe LORD will do this thing in the landland.

⁶ And the LORDthe LORD did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattlecattle of EgyptEgypt dieddied: but of the cattlecattle of the childrenchildren of IsraelIsrael dieddied not oneone.

⁷ And PharaohPharaoh sentsent, and behold, there was not oneone of the cattlecattle of the IsraelitesIsraelites deaddead. And the heartheart of PharaohPharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people gogo.

⁸ And the LORDthe LORD saidsaid to MosesMoses and to AaronAaron, Take to you handfuls of ashesashes of the furnace, and let MosesMoses sprinkle it towards heavenheaven in the sightsight of PharaohPharaoh.

⁹ And it shall become small dust in all the landland of EgyptEgypt, and shall be a boilboil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beastbeast, throughout all the landland of EgyptEgypt.

¹⁰ And they took ashes of the furnace, and stoodstood beforebefore PharaohPharaoh; and MosesMoses sprinkled it towards heavenheaven; and it became a boilboil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beastbeast.

¹¹ And the magicians could not standstand beforebefore MosesMoses, because of the boilboil: for the boilboil was upon the magicians, and upon all the EgyptiansEgyptians.

¹² And the LORDthe LORD hardened the heartheart of PharaohPharaoh, and he hearkened not to them; as the LORDthe LORD had spokespoke to MosesMoses.

¹³ And the LORDthe LORD saidsaid to MosesMoses, RiseRise earlyearly in the morningmorning, and standstand beforebefore PharaohPharaoh, and saysay to him, Thus saithsaith the LORDthe LORD GodGod of the HebrewsHebrews, Let my people gogo, that they may serveserve me.

¹⁴ For I will at this time sendsend all my plaguesplagues upon thy heartheart, and upon thy servantsservants, and upon thy people: that thou mayest knowknow that there is none like me in all the earthearth.

¹⁵ For now I will stretch out my handhand, that I may smitesmite thee and thy people with pestilencepestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earthearth.

¹⁶ And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, to showshow in thee my power; and that my namename may be declared throughout all the earthearth.

¹⁷ As yet dost thou exalt thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them gogo?

¹⁸ Behold, to-morrowmorrow about this timetime I will cause it to rainrain a very grievous hailhail, such as hath not been in EgyptEgypt since its foundationfoundation even until now.

¹⁹ SendSend therefore now, and gathergather thy cattlecattle, and all that thou hast in the fieldfield: for upon every man and beastbeast which shall be foundfound in the fieldfield, and shall not be brought home, the hailhail shall come downcome down upon them, and they shall diedie.

²⁰ He that feared the wordthe word of the LORDthe LORD, among the servantsservants of PharaohPharaoh, made his servantsservants and his cattlecattle fleeflee into the houseshouses:

²¹ And he that regarded not the wordthe word of the LORDthe LORD, left his servantsservants and his cattlecattle in the fieldfield.

²² And the LORDthe LORD saidsaid to MosesMoses, Stretch forth thy handhand towards heavenheaven, that there may be hailhail in all the landland of EgyptEgypt, upon man, and upon beastbeast, and upon every herbherb of the fieldfield, throughout the landland of EgyptEgypt.

²³ And MosesMoses stretchedstretched forth his rod towards heavenheaven, and the LORDthe LORD sent thunderthunder and hailhail, and the firefire ran along upon the groundground: and the LORDthe LORD rainedrained hailhail upon the landland of EgyptEgypt.

²⁴ So there was hailhail, and firefire mingled with the hailhail, very grievous, such as there had been none like it in all the landland of EgyptEgypt, since it became a nationnation.

²⁵ And the hailhail smotesmote, throughout all the landland of EgyptEgypt, all that was in the fieldfield, both man and beastbeast, and the hailhail smotesmote every herbherb of the fieldfield and broke every treetree of the fieldfield.

²⁶ Only in the landland of GoshenGoshen, where the childrenchildren of IsraelIsrael were, there was no hailhail.

²⁷ And PharaohPharaoh sentsent, and calledcalled for MosesMoses and AaronAaron, and saidsaid to them, I have sinned this time: the LORDthe LORD is righteousrighteous, and I and my people are wickedwicked.

²⁸ EntreatEntreat the LORDthe LORD (for it is enoughenough) that there be no more mightymighty thunderingsthunderings and hailhail; and I will let you gogo, and ye shall staystay no longer.

²⁹ And MosesMoses saidsaid to him, As soon as I am gone out of the citycity, I will spread abroad my handshands to the LORDthe LORD; and the thunderthunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hailhail; that thou mayest knowknow how that the earthearth is the LORDthe LORD'S.

³⁰ But as for thee and thy servantsservants, I knowknow that ye will not yet fearfear the LORDthe LORD GodGod.

³¹ And the flaxflax and the barleybarley were smittensmitten: for the barleybarley was in the ear, and the flaxflax was bolled.

³² But the wheatwheat and the ryerye were not smittensmitten; for they were not grown up.

³³ And MosesMoses went out of the citycity from PharaohPharaoh, and spread abroad his handshands to the LORDthe LORD: and the thundersthunders and hailhail ceased, and the rainrain was not poured upon the earthearth.

³⁴ And when PharaohPharaoh sawsaw that the rainrain and the hailhail and the thundersthunders had ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heartheart, he and his servantsservants.

³⁵ And the heartheart of PharaohPharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the childrenchildren of IsraelIsrael gogo; as the LORDthe LORD had spokenspoken by MosesMoses.