20. Those who feared the Lord’s word amongst the servants of Pharaoh made their servants and their livestock flee into the houses.
21. Whoever didn’t respect the Lord’s word left his servants and his livestock in the field.
22. The Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand towards the sky, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man, and on animal, and on every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.”
23. Moses stretched out his rod towards the heavens, and the Lord sent thunder and hail; and lightning flashed down to the earth. The Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt.
24. So there was very severe hail, and lightning mixed with the hail, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
25. The hail struck throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and animal; and the hail struck every herb of the field, and broke every tree of the field.
26. Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no hail.
27. Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “I have sinned this time. The Lord is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
28. Pray to the Lord; for there has been enough of mighty thunderings and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”
29. Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands to the Lord. The thunders shall cease, and there will not be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is the Lord’s.
30. But as for you and your servants, I know that you don’t yet fear the Lord God.”
31. The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley had ripened and the flax was blooming.