28. Pray to the Lord! Enough of God’s thunder and hail! I’m going to let you go. You don’t need to stay here any longer."
29. Moses said to him, "As soon as I’ve left the city, I’ll spread out my hands to the Lord. Then the thunder and the hail will stop and won’t return so that you will know that the earth belongs to the Lord.
30. But I know that you and your officials still don’t take the Lord God seriously." (
31. Now the flax and the barley were destroyed, because the barley had ears of grain and the flax had buds.
32. But both durum and spelt wheat weren’t ruined, because they hadn’t come up.)
33. Moses left Pharaoh and the city, and spread out his hands to the Lord. Then the thunder and the hail stopped, and the rain stopped pouring down on the earth.
34. But when Pharaoh saw that the rain, hail, and thunder had stopped, he sinned again. Pharaoh and his officials became stubborn.
35. Because of his stubbornness, Pharaoh refused to let the Israelites go, just as the Lord had told Moses.