¹⁰ Essi non sanno fare ciò ch’è retto, dice l’Eterno; accumulano nei loro palazzi i frutti della violenza e della rapina.

¹ Simon Pietro, servitore e apostolo di Gesù Cristo, a quelli che hanno ottenuto una fede preziosa quanto la nostra nella giustizia del nostro Dio e Salvatore Gesù Cristo:

² grazia e pace vi siano moltiplicate nella conoscenza di Dio e di Gesù nostro Signore.

³ Poiché la sua potenza divina ci ha donate tutte le cose che appartengono alla vita e alla pietà mediante la conoscenza di Colui che ci ha chiamati mercé la propria gloria e virtù,

⁴ per le quali Egli ci ha largito le sue preziose e grandissime promesse onde per loro mezzo voi foste fatti partecipi della natura divina dopo esser fuggiti dalla corruzione che è nel mondo per via della concupiscenza,

⁵ voi, per questa stessa ragione, mettendo in ciò dal canto vostro ogni premura, aggiungete alla fede vostra la virtù; alla virtù la conoscenza;

⁶ alla conoscenza la continenza; alla continenza la pazienza; alla pazienza la pietà; alla pietà l’amor fraterno;

⁷ e all’amor fraterno la carità.

⁸ Perché se queste cose si trovano e abbondano in voi, non vi renderanno né oziosi né sterili nella conoscenza del Signor nostro Gesù Cristo.

⁹ Poiché colui nel quale queste cose non si trovano, è cieco, ha la vista corta avendo dimenticato il purgamento dei suoi vecchi peccati.

¹⁰ Perciò, fratelli, vie più studiatevi di render sicura la vostra vocazione ad elezione; perché, facendo queste cose, non inciamperete giammai,

¹¹ poiché così vi sarà largamente provveduta l’entrata nel regno eterno del nostro Signore e Salvatore Gesù Cristo.

¹² Perciò avrò cura di ricordarvi del continuo queste cose, benché le conosciate, e siate stabiliti nella verità che vi è stata recata.

¹³ E stimo cosa giusta finché io sono in questa tenda, di risvegliarvi ricordandovele,

¹⁴ perché so che presto dovrò lasciare questa mia tenda, come il Signor nostro Gesù Cristo me lo ha dichiarato.

¹⁵ Ma mi studierò di far sì che dopo la mia dipartenza abbiate sempre modo di ricordarvi di queste cose.

¹⁶ Poiché non è coll’andar dietro a favole artificiosamente composte che vi abbiamo fatto conoscere la potenza e la venuta del nostro Signor Gesù Cristo, ma perché siamo stati testimoni oculari della sua maestà.

¹⁷ Poiché egli ricevette da Dio Padre onore e gloria quando giunse a lui quella voce dalla magnifica gloria: Questo è il mio diletto Figliuolo, nel quale mi sono compiaciuto.

¹⁸ E noi stessi udimmo quella voce che veniva dal cielo, quand’eravamo con lui sul monte santo.

¹⁹ Abbiamo pure la parola profetica, più ferma, alla quale fate bene di prestare attenzione, come una lampada splendente in luogo oscuro, finché spunti il giorno e la stella mattutina sorga ne’ vostri cuori;

²⁰ sapendo prima di tutto questo: che nessuna profezia della Scrittura procede da vedute particolari;

²¹ poiché non è dalla volontà dell’uomo che venne mai alcuna profezia, ma degli uomini hanno parlato da parte di Dio, perché sospinti dallo Spirito Santo.

¹ Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, 'This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: "Let my people Go, that they may serve me.

² For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,

³ behold, the hand of Yahweh is on your livestock which are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds, and on the flocks with a very grievous pestilence.

⁴ Yahweh will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt; and nothing shall die of all that belongs to the children of Israel."'"

⁵ Yahweh appointed a set time, saying, "Tomorrow Yahweh shall do this thing in the land."

⁶ Yahweh did that thing on the next day; and all the livestock of Egypt died, but of the livestock of the children of Israel, not one died.

⁷ Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not so much as one of the livestock of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was stubborn, and he didn't let the people go.

⁸ Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron, "Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh.

⁹ It shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with boils on man and on animal, throughout all the land of Egypt."

¹⁰ They took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward the sky; and it became a boil breaking forth with boils on man and on animal.

¹¹ The magicians couldn't stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boils were on the magicians, and on all the Egyptians.

¹² Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he didn't listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken to Moses.

¹³ Yahweh said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and tell him, 'This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: "Let my people go, that they may serve me.

¹⁴ For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart, against your officials, and against your people; that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.

¹⁵ For now I would have put forth my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth;

¹⁶ but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth;

¹⁷ as you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won't let them go.

¹⁸ Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now.

¹⁹ Now therefore command that all of your livestock and all that you have in the field be brought into shelter. Every man and animal that is found in the field, and isn't brought home, the hail shall come down on them, and they shall die."'"

²⁰ Those who feared the word of Yahweh among the servants of Pharaoh made their servants and their livestock flee into the houses.

²¹ Whoever didn't respect the word of Yahweh left his servants and his livestock in the field.

²² Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch forth your hand toward the sky, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man, and on animal, and on every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt."

²³ Moses stretched forth his rod toward the heavens, and Yahweh sent thunder, hail, and lightning flashed down to the earth. Yahweh rained hail on the land of Egypt.

²⁴ So there was very severe hail, and lightning mixed with the hail, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

²⁵ The hail struck throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and animal; and the hail struck every herb of the field, and broke every tree of the field.

²⁶ Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no hail.

²⁷ Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, "I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

²⁸ Pray to Yahweh; for there has been enough of mighty thunderings 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, I will spread abroad my hands to Yahweh. The thunders shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is Yahweh's.

³⁰ But as for you and your servants, I know that you don't yet fear Yahweh God."

³¹ The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom.

³² But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they had not grown up.

³³ Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands to Yahweh; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth.

³⁴ When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.

³⁵ The heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he didn't let the children of Israel go, just as Yahweh had spoken through Moses.