16. However, I have let you live for this purpose: to show you My power and to make My name known in all the earth.
17. You are still acting arrogantly against My people by not letting them go.
18. Tomorrow at this time I will rain down the worst hail that has ever occurred in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.
19. Therefore give orders to bring your livestock and all that you have in the field into shelters. Every person and animal that is in the field and not brought inside will die when the hail falls on them.”
20. Those among Pharaoh’s officials who feared the word of the Lord made their servants and livestock flee to shelters,
21. but those who didn’t take the Lord’s word seriously left their servants and livestock in the field.
22. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven and let there be hail throughout the land of Egypt — on man and beast and every plant of the field in the land of Egypt.”
23. So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail. Lightning struck the earth, and the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt.
24. The hail, with lightning flashing through it, was so severe that nothing like it had occurred in the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.
25. Throughout the land of Egypt, the hail struck down everything in the field, both man and beast. The hail beat down every plant of the field and shattered every tree in the field.
26. The only place it didn’t hail was in the land of Goshen where the Israelites were.
27. Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron. “I have sinned this time,” he said to them. “Yahweh is the Righteous One, and I and my people are the guilty ones.
28. Make an appeal to Yahweh. There has been enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go; you don’t need to stay any longer.”