16. But this is why I have let you survive: to show you my power and to make my name resound throughout the earth!
17. Will you continue to exalt yourself over my people and not let them go?
18. At this time tomorrow, therefore, I am going to rain down such fierce hail as there has never been in Egypt from the day it was founded up to the present.
19. Therefore, order your livestock and whatever else you have in the open fields to be brought to a place of safety. Whatever human being or animal is found in the fields and is not brought to shelter will die when the hail comes down upon them.
20. Those of Pharaoh’s servants who feared the word of the Lord hurried their servants and their livestock off to shelter.
21. But those who did not pay attention to the word of the Lord left their servants and their livestock in the fields.