1 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go 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 worship me."2 If you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them back,3 the hand of the LORD will bring a terrible plague on your livestock in the field —on your horses, donkeys and camels and on your cattle, sheep and goats.4 But the LORD will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and that of Egypt, so that no animal belonging to the Israelites will die.'"5 The LORD set a time and said, "Tomorrow the LORD will do this in the land."6 And the next day the LORD did it: All the livestock of the Egyptians died, but not one animal belonging to the Israelites died.7 Pharaoh investigated and found that not even one of the animals of the Israelites had died. Yet his heart was unyielding and he would not let the people go.8 Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Take handfuls of soot from a furnace and have Moses toss it into the air in the presence of Pharaoh.9 It will become fine dust over the whole land of Egypt, and festering boils will break out on people and animals throughout the land."10 So they took soot from a furnace and stood before Pharaoh. Moses tossed it into the air, and festering boils broke out on people and animals.11 The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils that were on them and on all the Egyptians.12 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart and he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said to Moses.13 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Get up early in the morning, confront Pharaoh and say to him, 'This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me,14 or this time I will send the full force of my plagues against you and against your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.15 For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with a plague that would have wiped you off the earth.16 But I have raised you up "for this very purpose, that I might show you my power and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.17 You still set yourself against my people and will not let them go.18 Therefore, at this time tomorrow I will send the worst hailstorm that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded till now.19 Give an order now to bring your livestock and everything you have in the field to a place of shelter, because the hail will fall on every person and animal that has not been brought in and is still out in the field, and they will die.'"20 Those officials of Pharaoh who feared the word of the LORD hurried to bring their slaves and their livestock inside.21 But those who ignored the word of the LORD left their slaves and livestock in the field.22 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that hail will fall all over Egypt —on people and animals and on everything growing in the fields of Egypt."23 When Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning flashed down to the ground. So the LORD rained hail on the land of Egypt;24 hail fell and lightning flashed back and forth. It was the worst storm in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.25 Throughout Egypt hail struck everything in the fields —both people and animals; it beat down everything growing in the fields and stripped every tree.26 The only place it did not hail was the land of Goshen, where the Israelites were.27 Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron. "This time I have sinned," he said to them. "The LORD is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong.28 Pray to the LORD, for we have had enough thunder and hail. I will let you go; you don't have to stay any longer."29 Moses replied, "When I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands in prayer to the LORD. The thunder will stop and there will be no more hail, so you may know that the earth is the LORD's.30 But I know that you and your officials still do not fear the LORD God."31 (The flax and barley were destroyed, since the barley had headed and the flax was in bloom.32 The wheat and spelt, however, were not destroyed, because they ripen later.)33 Then Moses left Pharaoh and went out of the city. He spread out his hands toward the LORD; the thunder and hail stopped, and the rain no longer poured down on the land.34 When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder had stopped, he sinned again: He and his officials hardened their hearts.35 So Pharaoh's heart was hard and he would not let the Israelites go, just as the LORD had said through Moses.

1 Dixit autem Dominus ad Moysen : Ingredere ad Pharaonem, et loquere ad eum : Hc dicit Dominus Deus Hebrorum : Dimitte populum meum ut sacrificet mihi. 2 Quod si adhuc renuis, et retines eos, 3 ecce manus mea erit super agros tuos, et super equos, et asinos, et camelos, et boves, et oves, pestis valde gravis. 4 Et faciet Dominus mirabile inter possessiones Isral et possessiones gyptiorum, ut nihil omnino pereat ex eis qu pertinent ad filios Isral. 5 Constituitque Dominus tempus, dicens : Cras faciet Dominus verbum istud in terra. 6 Fecit ergo Dominus verbum hoc altera die : mortuaque sunt omnia animantia gyptiorum ; de animalibus vero filiorum Isral, nihil omnino periit. 7 Et misit Pharao ad videndum : nec erat quidquam mortuum de his qu possidebat Isral. Ingravatumque est cor Pharaonis, et non dimisit populum.8 Et dixit Dominus ad Moysen et Aaron : Tollite plenas manus cineris de camino, et spargat illum Moyses in clum coram Pharaone. 9 Sitque pulvis super omnem terram gypti : erunt enim in hominibus et jumentis ulcera, et vesic turgentes in universa terra gypti. 10 Tuleruntque cinerem de camino, et steterunt coram Pharaone, et sparsit illum Moyses in clum : factaque sunt ulcera vesicarum turgentium in hominibus et jumentis : 11 nec poterant malefici stare coram Moyse propter ulcera qu in illis erant, et in omni terra gypti. 12 Induravitque Dominus cor Pharaonis, et non audivit eos, sicut locutus est Dominus ad Moysen.13 Dixitque Dominus ad Moysen : Mane consurge, et sta coram Pharaone, et dices ad eum : Hc dicit Dominus Deus Hebrorum : Dimitte populum meum ut sacrificet mihi. 14 Quia in hac vice mittam omnes plagas meas super cor tuum, et super servos tuos, et super populum tuum : ut scias quod non sit similis mei in omni terra. 15 Nunc enim extendens manum percutiam te, et populum tuum peste, peribisque de terra. 16 Idcirco autem posui te, ut ostendam in te fortitudinem meam, et narretur nomen meum in omni terra. 17 Adhuc retines populum meum, et non vis dimittere eum ? 18 En pluam cras hac ipsa hora grandinem multam nimis, qualis non fuit in gypto a die qua fundata est, usque in prsens tempus. 19 Mitte ergo jam nunc, et congrega jumenta tua, et omnia qu habes in agro : homines enim, et jumenta, et universa qu inventa fuerint foris, nec congregata de agris, cecideritque super ea grando, morientur. 20 Qui timuit verbum Domini de servis Pharaonis, facit confugere servos suos et jumenta in domos : 21 qui autem neglexit sermonem Domini, dimisit servos suos et jumenta in agris. 22 Et dixit Dominus ad Moysen : Extende manum tuam in clum, ut fiat grando in universa terra gypti super homines, et super jumenta, et super omnem herbam agri in terra gypti. 23 Extenditque Moyses virgam in clum, et Dominus dedit tonitrua, et grandinem, ac discurrentia fulgura super terram : pluitque Dominus grandinem super terram gypti. 24 Et grando et ignis mista pariter ferebantur : tantque fuit magnitudinis, quanta ante numquam apparuit in universa terra gypti ex quo gens illa condita est. 25 Et percussit grando in omni terra gypti cuncta qu fuerunt in agris, ab homine usque ad jumentum : cunctamque herbam agri percussit grando, et omne lignum regionis confregit. 26 Tantum in terra Gessen, ubi erant filii Isral, grando non cecidit. 27 Misitque Pharao, et vocavit Moysen et Aaron, dicens ad eos : Peccavi etiam nunc : Dominus justus ; ego et populus meus, impii. 28 Orate Dominum ut desinant tonitrua Dei, et grando : ut dimittam vos, et nequaquam hic ultra maneatis. 29 Ait Moyses : Cum egressus fuero de urbe, extendam palmas meas ad Dominum, et cessabunt tonitrua, et grando non erit, ut scias quia Domini est terra : 30 novi autem quod et tu et servi tui necdum timeatis Dominum Deum. 31 Linum ergo et hordeum lsum est, eo quod hordeum esset virens, et linum jam folliculos germinaret : 32 triticum autem et far non sunt lsa, quia serotina erant. 33 Egressusque Moyses a Pharaone ex urbe, tetendit manus ad Dominum : et cessaverunt tonitrua et grando, nec ultra stillavit pluvia super terram. 34 Videns autem Pharao quod cessasset pluvia, et grando, et tonitrua, auxit peccatum : 35 et ingravatum est cor ejus, et servorum illius, et induratum nimis : nec dimisit filios Isral, sicut prceperat Dominus per manum Moysi.