17. Still you are behaving haughtily to my people by not releasing them.
18. Look, about this time tomorrow, I am going to cause very severe hail to rain, the like of which has not been in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.
19. And now send word; bring into safety your livestock and all that belongs to you in the field. The hail will come down on every human and animal that is found in the field and not gathered into the house, and they will die.” ’ ”
20. Anyone from the servants of Pharaoh who feared the word of Yahweh caused his servants and livestock to flee to the houses.
21. But whoever did not give regard to the word of Yahweh abandoned his servants and his livestock in the field.
22. And Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand to the heavens, and let there be hail in all the land of Egypt, on human and on animal and on all the vegetation of the field in the land of Egypt.”