1 Verder het die HERE met Moses gespreek: Gaan na Farao en sê vir hom: So spreek die HERE, die God van die Hebreërs: Laat my volk trek, dat hulle My kan dien.
2 Want as jy weier om hulle te laat trek en hulle nog langer vashou,
3 kyk, dan sal die hand van die HERE wees teen jou vee wat in die veld is, teen die perde, teen die esels, teen die kamele, teen die beeste en teen die kleinvee met 'n baie swaar pes.
4 En die HERE sal 'n onderskeid maak tussen die vee van die Israeliete en die vee van die Egiptenaars, sodat niks sal doodgaan van alles wat aan die kinders van Israel behoort nie.
5 En die HERE het 'n bepaalde tyd gestel en gesê: M"re sal die HERE dit doen in die land.
6 En die HERE het dit die volgende dag gedoen: al die vee van die Egiptenaars het doodgegaan. Maar van die vee van die kinders van Israel is nie een dood nie.
7 Farao het toe gestuur, en kyk, van die vee van die Israeliete was daar nie een dood nie! Maar die hart van Farao was verhard, en hy het die volk nie laat trek nie.
8 Verder het die HERE aan Moses en A„ron gesê: Neem julle twee hande vol roet uit die oond, en laat Moses dit na die hemel uitstrooi voor die oë van Farao;
9 en dit sal fyn stof word oor die hele Egipteland en aan mense en diere swere veroorsaak wat in blare uitbreek, in die hele Egipteland.
10 So het hulle dan roet uit die oond geneem en voor Farao gaan staan, en Moses het dit na die hemel uitgestrooi. Toe word dit swere wat uitbreek in blare aan mense en diere.
11 En die towenaars kon voor Moses nie staan vanweë die swere nie. Want die swere was aan die towenaars en al die Egiptenaars.
12 Maar die HERE het Farao se hart verhard, sodat hy nie na hulle geluister het nie, soos die HERE aan Moses gesê het.
13 Verder het die HERE aan Moses gesê: Maak jou môre vroeg klaar en stel jou voor Farao en sê vir hom: So spreek die HERE, die God van die Hebreërs: Laat my volk trek, dat hulle My kan dien.
14 Want hierdie keer sal Ek al my plae in jou hart stuur, en teen jou dienaars en jou volk, dat jy kan weet dat daar niemand op die hele aarde is soos Ek nie.
15 Want anders sou Ek my hand uitgestrek en jou en jou volk met die pes getref het, en jy sou van die aarde verdelg gewees het;
16 maar juis hierom het Ek jou nog laat bestaan, dat Ek jou my krag kan toon, en dat hulle my Naam op die hele aarde kan verkondig.
17 Versit jy jou nog teen my volk, dat jy hulle nie wil laat trek nie?
18 Kyk, Ek sal môre omtrent sulke tyd 'n baie swaar hael laat reën soos wat in Egipte nie gewees het van die dag af dat dit gegrond is tot nou toe nie.
19 Stuur dan nou en laat jou vee en alles wat jy in die veld het, in veiligheid bring; al die mense en die diere wat in die veld gevind word, en wat nie binnekant gebring is nie -- op hulle sal die hael val, sodat hulle sterwe.
20 Hy wat die HERE se woord gevrees het onder die dienaars van Farao, het sy slawe en sy vee in die huise laat vlug;
21 maar hy wat op die HERE se woord geen ag gegee het nie, het sy slawe en sy vee in die veld laat bly.
22 Toe sê die HERE vir Moses: Steek jou hand na die hemel uit, en daar sal hael wees in die hele Egipteland, oor mense en diere en oor al die plante van die veld in Egipteland.
23 En Moses het sy staf na die hemel uitgesteek, en die HERE het donder en hael gegee, en vuur het na die aarde uitgeskiet; en die HERE het hael op Egipteland laat reën.
24 En daar was hael en onophoudelike vuur binne-in die hael, baie swaar, soos in die hele Egipteland nooit gewees het vandat dit aan 'n volk behoort het nie.
25 En die hael het in die hele Egipteland geslaan alles wat in die veld was, mense sowel as diere. Ook het die hael al die plante van die veld geslaan en al die bome van die veld verbreek.
26 Net in die land Gosen, waar die kinders van Israel was, was daar geen hael nie.
27 Toe het Farao Moses en A„ron laat roep en vir hulle gesê: Ek het die keer sonde gedoen. Die HERE is reg, maar ek en my volk het ongelyk.
28 Bid tot die HERE, want daar is oorgenoeg donder van God en hael gewees; dan sal ek julle laat trek, en julle hoef nie langer te bly nie.
29 Toe sê Moses vir hom: So gou as ek die stad uitgaan, sal ek my hande tot die HERE uitbrei: die donder sal ophou en die hael sal nie meer wees nie; sodat u kan weet dat die aarde aan die HERE behoort.
30 Maar wat u en u dienaars betref -- ek weet dat julle nog nie ontsag het vir die HERE God nie.
31 En die vlas en die gars was weggeslaan, want die gars was in die aar en die vlas in die knop.
32 Maar die koring en die spelt was nie weggeslaan nie, want hulle is later.
33 So het Moses dan uit die stad gegaan van Farao af weg en sy hande tot die HERE uitgebrei. En die donder en hael het opgehou, en die reën het nie meer op die aarde gegiet nie.
34 Toe Farao sien dat die reën en die hael en die donder ophou, het hy nog verder gesondig en sy hart verhard, hy en sy dienaars.
35 Ja, Farao se hart was verhard, sodat hy die kinders van Israel nie laat trek het nie, soos die HERE deur die diens van Moses gespreek het.
1 Then the Lord said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go so that they may give me worship.
2 For if you will not let them go, but still keep them in your power,
3 Then the hand of the Lord will put on your cattle in the field, on the horses and the asses and the camels, on the herds and the flocks, a very evil disease.
4 And the Lord will make a division between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt; there will be no loss of any of the cattle of Israel.
5 And the time was fixed by the Lord, and he said, Tomorrow the Lord will do this thing in the land.
6 And on the day after, the Lord did as he had said, causing the death of all the cattle of Egypt, but there was no loss of any of the cattle of Israel.
7 And Pharaoh sent and got word that there was no loss of any of the cattle of Israel. But the heart of Pharaoh was hard and he did not let the people go.
8 And the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron, Take in your hand a little dust from the fire and let Moses send it in a shower up to heaven before the eyes of Pharaoh.
9 And it will become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and will be a skin-disease bursting out in wounds on man and beast through all the land of Egypt.
10 So they took some dust from the fire, and placing themselves before Pharaoh, Moses sent it out in a shower up to heaven; and it became a skin-disease bursting out on man and on beast.
11 And the wonder-workers were not able to take their places before Moses, because of the disease; for the disease was on the wonder-workers and on all the Egyptians.
12 And the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he would not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.
13 And the Lord said to Moses, Get up early in the morning and take your place before Pharaoh, and say to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go so that they may give me worship.
14 For this time I will send all my punishments on yourself and on your servants and on your people; so that you may see that there is no other like me in all the earth.
15 For if I had put the full weight of my hand on you and your people, you would have been cut off from the earth:
16 But, for this very reason, I have kept you from destruction, to make clear to you my power, and so that my name may be honoured through all the earth.
17 Are you still uplifted in pride against my people so that you will not let them go?
18 Truly, tomorrow about this time I will send down an ice-storm, such as never was in Egypt from its earliest days till now.
19 Then send quickly and get in your cattle and all you have from the fields; for if any man or beast in the field has not been put under cover, the ice-storm will come down on them with destruction.
20 Then everyone among the servants of Pharaoh who had the fear of the Lord, made his servants and his cattle come quickly into the house:
21 And he who gave no attention to the word of the Lord, kept his servants and his cattle in the field.
22 And the Lord said to Moses, Now let your hand be stretched out to heaven so that there may be an ice-storm on all the land of Egypt, on man and on beast and on every plant of the field through all the land of Egypt.
23 And Moses put out his rod to heaven: and the Lord sent thunder, and an ice-storm, and fire running down on the earth; the Lord sent an ice-storm on the land of Egypt.
24 So there was an ice-storm with fire running through it, coming down with great force, such as never was in all the land of Egypt from the time when it became a nation.
25 And through all the land of Egypt the ice-storm came down on everything which was in the fields, on man and on beast; and every green plant was crushed and every tree of the field broken.
26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no ice-storm.
27 Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have done evil this time: the Lord is upright, and I and my people are sinners.
28 Make prayer to the Lord; for there has been enough of these thunderings of God and this ice-storm; and I will let you go and will keep you no longer.
29 And Moses said, When I am gone outside the town, my hands will be stretched out to the Lord; the thunders and the ice-storm will come to an end, so that you may see that the earth is the Lord's.
30 But as for you and your servants, I am certain that even now the fear of the Lord God will not be in your hearts.
31 And the flax and the barley were damaged, for the barley was almost ready to be cut and the flax was in flower.
32 But the rest of the grain-plants were undamaged, for they had not come up.
33 So Moses went out of the town, and stretching out his hands made prayer to God: and the thunders and the ice-storm came to an end; and the fall of rain was stopped.
34 But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the ice-storm and the thunders were ended, he went on sinning, and made his heart hard, he and his servants.
35 And the heart of Pharaoh was hard, and he did not let the people go, as the Lord had said by the mouth of Moses.