15. “Now if I had stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, then you would have been cut off from the earth.
16. “And for this reason I have raised you up, in order to show you My power, and in order to declare My Name in all the earth.
17. “You still exalt yourself against My people in that you do not let them go!
18. “See, tomorrow about this time I am causing very heavy hail to rain down, such as has not been in Mitsrayim, from the day of its founding until now.
19. “And now send, bring your livestock to safety, and all that you have in the field, for the hail shall come down on every man and every beast which is found in the field and is not brought home, and they shall die.” ’ ”
20. Those among the servants of Pharaoh who feared the word of יהוה made their servants and livestock flee to the houses.
21. But those who did not set their heart on the word of יהוה left their servants and livestock in the field.
22. Then יהוה said to Mosheh, “Stretch out your hand toward the heavens, and let there be hail in all the land of Mitsrayim – on man, and on beast, and on every plant of the field, throughout the land of Mitsrayim.”
23. Then Mosheh stretched out his rod toward the heavens. And יהוה sent thunder and hail, and fire came down to the earth. And יהוה rained hail on the land of Mitsrayim.
24. Thus there came to be hail, and fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, very heavy, such as had not been in all the land of Mitsrayim since it became a nation.
25. And the hail smote in all the land of Mitsrayim all that was in the field, both man and beast. And the hail smote every plant of the field and broke every tree of the field.
26. Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Yisra’ĕl were, there was no hail.
27. Pharaoh then sent and called for Mosheh and for Aharon, and said to them, “I have sinned this time. יהוה is righteous, and my people and I are wrong.