# Exodus 9

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/exodus/9

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and speak to him: 'Thus says Yahweh, God of the Hebrews, "Release my people, that they may serve me."'"
2. For if you refuse to let them go and still hold them fast,
3. See, the hand of Yahweh is on your livestock which are in the field—on horses, donkeys, camels, cattle, and flocks—a very severe plague.
4. Yahweh will distinguish between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, and nothing will die from all that belongs to the children of Israel.
5. Yahweh appointed a set time, saying, "Tomorrow Yahweh will do this thing in the land."
6. Yahweh did that thing the next day, and all the livestock of Egypt died, but not one of the livestock of the sons of Israel died.
7. Pharaoh sent, and indeed, not one of Israel's livestock had died. Pharaoh's heart hardened, and he did not let the people go.
8. Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "Take handfuls of furnace ashes, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heavens before Pharaoh."
9. It will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and it will be boils breaking out into blisters on people and livestock throughout all the land of Egypt.
10. They took ashes from the furnace and stood before Pharaoh; Moses sprinkled it toward the sky, and it became boils breaking forth with pustules on humans and livestock.
11. The magicians were not able to stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils were on the magicians and all the Egyptians.
12. Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken to Moses.
13. Yahweh said to Moses, "Rise early in the morning, present yourself before Pharaoh, and tell him, 'Thus says Yahweh, God of the Hebrews: Release my people, that they may serve me.'"
14. For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart, your servants, and your people, so that you may know there is none like me in all the earth.
15. For now I would have thrust out my hand and struck you and your people with plague, and you would have been destroyed from the earth.
16. But for this purpose I have made you stand, to show you my power, and so that my name may be declared in all the earth.
17. You still exalt yourself against my people by refusing to send them.
18. Behold, tomorrow about this time I will rain very heavy hail, such as has not been like it in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now.
19. Now send and gather your livestock and everything you have in the field. Every person and beast found in the field that is not brought indoors—the hail will descend on them, and they will die.
20. Anyone among Pharaoh's servants who feared the word of Yahweh brought his servants and livestock into the houses.
21. Whoever did not take Yahweh's word to heart left his servants and his livestock in the field.
22. Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the heavens, and there will be hail across all the land of Egypt—on humans, on livestock, and on every plant in the field, in the land of Egypt."
23. Moses stretched out his staff toward the heavens, and Yahweh sent thunder and hail, with fire running down to the earth; Yahweh rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
24. There was hail with fire flashing in its midst, very heavy—such as had not been like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
25. The hail struck all the land of Egypt, all that was in the field from man to beast; and the hail struck all grass in the field and broke every tree in the field.
26. The land of Goshen alone, where the Israelites were, had no hail.
27. Pharaoh sent and called Moses and Aaron, and said to them, "I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my people are wicked."
28. Pray to Yahweh; enough of God's thunders and hail. I will release you, and you shall not continue to remain.
29. Moses said to him, "When I leave the city, I will spread out my hands to Yahweh; the thunders will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth belongs to Yahweh."
30. You and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear Yahweh God.
31. The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley was in ear and the flax was budding.
32. But the wheat and spelt were not beaten down, because they were immature.
33. Moses went out from Pharaoh, out of the city, and spread out his hands to Yahweh; the thunders and hail ceased, and rain did not pour down on the earth.
34. When Pharaoh saw that the rain, hail, and thunders had ceased, he sinned even more and hardened his heart—he and his servants.
35. Pharaoh's heart hardened, and he did not send Israel's sons away, just as Yahweh had spoken through Moses.

## Nearby chapters

[Exodus 8](https://www.lumin.faith/read/exodus/8.md)
[Exodus 10](https://www.lumin.faith/read/exodus/10.md)

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