19. So bring under shelter your livestock and all that belongs to you that is out in the open. Every person or animal that is out in the open field and isn’t brought inside will die when the hail rains down on them."
20. Some of Pharaoh’s officials who took the Lord’s word seriously rushed to bring their servants and livestock inside for shelter.
21. Others who didn’t take the Lord’s word to heart left their servants and livestock out in the open field.
22. The Lord said to Moses, "Raise your hand toward the sky so that hail will fall on the whole land of Egypt, on people and animals and all the grain in the fields in the land of Egypt."
23. Then Moses raised his shepherd’s rod toward the sky, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightning struck the earth. The Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt.
24. The hail and the lightning flashing in the middle of the hail were so severe that there had been nothing like it in the entire land of Egypt since it first became a nation.
25. The hail beat down everything that was in the open field throughout the entire land of Egypt, both people and animals. The hail also beat down all the grain in the fields, and it shattered every tree out in the field.
26. The only place where hail didn’t fall was in the land of Goshen where the Israelites lived.