16. But, indeed, for this cause I have raised you up, in order to show in you My power and so that My name may be declared throughout all the earth.
17. Still, you exalt yourself against My people by forbidding them to go.
18. Certainly, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very severe hail, such as has not happened in Egypt since it was founded until now.
19. Send therefore now and bring your livestock and all that you have in the field to safety. Every man and beast which shall be found in the field and not brought home when the hail comes down upon them will die.’ ”
20. He that feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his livestock flee into the houses.
21. But he that failed to regard the word of the Lord left his servants and his livestock in the field.
22. So the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch forth your hand toward the heavens, so that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man and beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.”
23. Moses stretched forth his rod toward the heavens, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire ran along upon the ground. So the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
24. So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail. It was so severe that there had been none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.