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Exodus 9 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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The Fifth Plague: Egyptian Livestock Die

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:1 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:2 - For if you refuse to let them go and still hold them,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:3 - behold, the hand of the LORD will fall with a very severe plague upon your livestock that are in the field, the horses, the donkeys, the camels, the herds, and the flocks.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:4 - But the LORD will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that nothing of all that belongs to the people of Israel shall die.”’”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:5 - And the LORD set a time, saying, “Tomorrow the LORD will do this thing in the land.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:6 - And the next day the LORD did this thing. All the livestock of the Egyptians died, but not one of the livestock of the people of Israel died.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:7 - And Pharaoh sent, and behold, not one of the livestock of Israel was dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go.

The Sixth Plague: Boils

(Deu 28:27 )
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:8 - And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of soot from the kiln, and let Moses throw them in the air in the sight of Pharaoh.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:9 - It shall become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and become boils breaking out in sores on man and beast throughout all the land of Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:10 - So they took soot from the kiln and stood before Pharaoh. And Moses threw it in the air, and it became boils breaking out in sores on man and beast.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:11 - And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils came upon the magicians and upon all the Egyptians.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:12 - But the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not listen to them, as the LORD had spoken to Moses.

The Seventh Plague: Hail

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:13 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning and present yourself before Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:14 - For this time I will send all my plagues on you yourself,[fn] and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:15 - For by now I could have put out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:16 - But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:17 - You are still exalting yourself against my people and will not let them go.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:18 - Behold, about this time tomorrow I will cause very heavy hail to fall, such as never has been in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:19 - Now therefore send, get your livestock and all that you have in the field into safe shelter, for every man and beast that is in the field and is not brought home will die when the hail falls on them.”’”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:20 - Then whoever feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh hurried his slaves and his livestock into the houses,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:21 - but whoever did not pay attention to the word of the LORD left his slaves and his livestock in the field.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:22 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man and beast and every plant of the field, in the land of Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:23 - Then Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth. And the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:24 - There was hail and fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, very heavy hail, such as had never been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:25 - The hail struck down everything that was in the field in all the land of Egypt, both man and beast. And the hail struck down every plant of the field and broke every tree of the field.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:26 - Only in the land of Goshen, where the people of Israel were, was there no hail.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:27 - Then Pharaoh sent and called Moses and Aaron and said to them, “This time I have sinned; the LORD is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:28 - Plead with the LORD, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:29 - Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will stretch out my hands to the LORD. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the LORD’s.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:30 - But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear the LORD God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:31 - (The flax and the barley were struck down, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:32 - But the wheat and the emmer[fn] were not struck down, for they are late in coming up.)
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:33 - So Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and stretched out his hands to the LORD, and the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured upon the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:34 - But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned yet again and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:35 - So the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people of Israel go, just as the LORD had spoken through Moses.
ESV Footnotes
Hebrew on your heart
A type of wheat
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