Chapter 9
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And the LORD said to Moses, "Rise early in the morning and station yourself before Pharaoh and say to him, 'Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews, "Send out my people and let them serve me."'"
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For at this time I am sending all my plagues to your heart and to your servants and to your people, in order that you may know that there is none like me in all the land.
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For now I have stretched out my hand, and indeed you and your people with the pestilence, and you will be wiped from the land.
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And yet for this reason I have caused you to stand, for showing you my might and in order that my name may be recounted throughout all the earth.
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You are still exalting yourself against my people so as not to send them.
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Behold, I am about to cause very heavy hail to rain down about this time tomorrow, such as has not been in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.
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And now send the livestock—your livestock and all that is yours in the field, every human and beast that is found in the field and not gathered to the house—and the hail will fall on them and they will die.
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The one fearing the word of the LORD among Pharaoh's servants hurried his servants and his livestock into the houses.
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And the one who did not set his heart to the word of the LORD left his servants and his livestock in the field.
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And the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the heavens, and there shall be hail over all the earth of Egypt, over man and over the livestock and over all the herb of the field in the earth of Egypt."
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And Moses stretched out his staff toward the heavens, and the LORD gave thunder and hail, and fire ran down on the land, and the LORD rained hail on the land of Egypt.
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And there was hail and fire flashing in the midst of the hail, very heavy, which had not been like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
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And the hail struck everything in all the land of Egypt that was in the field, from humanity even to livestock. And the hail struck every green plant of the field and every tree of the field; it broke them.
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Only in the land of Goshen, where the sons of Israel were, there was no hail.
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Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and he said to them, "I have sinned this time. The LORD is righteous, but I and my people are wicked."
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Make supplication to the LORD, and much from the voice of God and hail—then I will send you away, and you will not continue to stand.
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Moses said to him, "As soon as I go out of the city, I will spread out my hands to the LORD; the thunder will cease and the hail will not continue, so that you may know that the earth belongs to the LORD."
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But as for you and your servants, I know that you will not yet fear the LORD God.
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And the flax and the barley were struck, for the barley was ripe and the flax was in bud.
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And the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they are late-sown.
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And Moses went out from Pharaoh, out from the city. And he spread his hands toward the LORD, and the thunders ceased, and the hail and the rain did not pour on the earth.
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When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder had ceased, he sinned more and made his heart heavy—he and his servants.
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Pharaoh's heart was strengthened, and he did not let the sons of Israel go, just as the LORD had spoken through Moses.