13The LORD said to Moses, "Rise early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh and say to him, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews: Send my people so that they may serve me.'"14For at this time I am sending all my plagues against your heart, your servants, and your people, so that you may know that there is no one like me in all the land.15For now I have sent my hand and I will strike you and your people with pestilence, and you will be cut off from the land.16Yet for this purpose I have preserved you: to show you my power and to proclaim my name throughout all the land.17You are still exalting yourself against my people by refusing to send them.18Behold, tomorrow at this time I will cause very heavy hail to rain down, such as has never occurred in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.19Therefore send now and bring your livestock and everything you have in the field to safety; every person and animal that is found in the field and is not brought home will die when the hail falls upon them.20Those of Pharaoh's servants who feared the word of the LORD brought their own servants and livestock into the houses.21But those who did not pay attention to the word of the LORD left their servants and their livestock in the field.22The LORD said to Moses, Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that hail may fall on all the land of Egypt, on man and beast and on every plant of the field throughout the land of Egypt.23Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth; the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.24There 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.25The hail struck throughout all the land of Egypt everything that was in the field, both man and beast; the hail struck every plant of the field and broke every tree of the field.26Only in the land of Goshen, where the sons of Israel were, was there no hail.27Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron and said to them, This time I have sinned; the LORD is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong.28Entreat the LORD, for there has been enough of the thunder and hail of God; I will send you away and you shall not remain any longer.29Moses said to him, As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to the LORD; the thunder will cease and there will be no more hail, that you may know that the earth belongs to the LORD.30But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear the LORD God.31The flax and the barley were ruined, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud.32But the wheat and the spelt were not ruined, because they are late crops.33Moses went out from Pharaoh's presence, out of the city, and spread out his hands to the LORD; the thunder and the hail ceased, and rain no longer poured on the earth.34When Pharaoh saw that the rain, the hail, and the thunder had ceased, he continued to sin and hardened his heart, both he and his servants.35The heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not send the sons of Israel away, just as the LORD had spoken through Moses.