8.
The seventh conflict: The fifth plague — pestilence
9:1-7
Exo. 9
:1
9:1
Then Jehovah said to Moses, Go to Pharaoh, and speak to him, Thus says
aJehovah, the God of the Hebrews,
bLet My people go that they may serve Me.
Exo. 9
:2
9:2
For if you refuse to let
them go and still retain them,
Exo. 9
:3
9:3
Then the
ahand of Jehovah is going to be on your livestock which are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds, and on the flocks with a very severe
1bpestilence.
Exo. 9
:4
9:4
And Jehovah will make a
1adistinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that nothing will die of all that belongs to the children of Israel.
Exo. 9
:5
9:5
And Jehovah set an appointed time, saying, Tomorrow Jehovah will do this thing in the land.
Exo. 9
:6
9:6
And Jehovah did this thing on the next day; and all the livestock of Egypt died, but of the livestock of the children of Israel not one died.
Exo. 9
:7
9:7
And Pharaoh sent
to inquire, and indeed there was not so much as one of the livestock of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was
astubborn, and he did
bnot let the people go.
9.
The eighth conflict: The sixth plague — boils
9:8-12
Exo. 9
:8
9:8
Then Jehovah said to Moses and to Aaron, Take handfuls of
1ashes from a furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.
Exo. 9
:9
9:9
And it will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and will become boils breaking out with sores on man and on beast throughout all the land of Egypt.
Exo. 9
:10
9:10
So they took ashes from the furnace and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it toward heaven, and it became
aboils breaking forth with sores on man and on beast.
Exo. 9
:11
9:11
And the magicians could not
astand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils were on the magicians as well as on all the Egyptians.
Exo. 9
:12
9:12
And Jehovah
1ahardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not listen to them, just as Jehovah had spoken to Moses.
10.
The ninth conflict: The seventh plague — hail
9:13-35
Exo. 9
:13
9:13
Then Jehovah said to Moses, Rise up early in the
amorning, and present yourself before Pharaoh, and say to him, Thus says
bJehovah, the God of the Hebrews,
cLet My people go that they may serve Me.
Exo. 9
:14
9:14
For this time I am going to send all My
aplagues against
1you and on your servants and on your people, so that you may
bknow that there is no one
clike Me in all the earth.
Exo. 9
:15
9:15
For if by now I had stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, you would have been cut off from the earth.
Exo. 9
:16
9:16
But indeed
afor this cause I have
1made you stand, to
bshow you My power and to have My
cname proclaimed throughout all the earth.
Exo. 9
:17
9:17
You are still exalting yourself against My people by
anot letting them go.
Exo. 9
:18
9:18
Tomorrow about this time I am going to cause very heavy
1ahail to fall, such as has never occurred in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now.
Exo. 9
:19
9:19
Now therefore send
men and secure your livestock and all that you have in the field; every man and beast that is found in the field and is not brought home when the hail comes down shall die.
Exo. 9
:20
9:20
He who feared the word of Jehovah among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his livestock flee into the houses.
Exo. 9
:21
9:21
But he who did not pay attention to the word of Jehovah left his servants and his livestock in the field.
Exo. 9
:22
9:22
And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand toward heaven that there may be hail throughout all the land of Egypt, upon man and upon beast and upon all the vegetation of the field in the land of Egypt.
Exo. 9
:23
9:23
And Moses stretched out his
astaff toward heaven; and Jehovah sent thunder and hail, and fire came down on the earth, and Jehovah rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
Exo. 9
:24
9:24
So there was very heavy hail with fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, such as had not occurred in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
Exo. 9
:25
9:25
And the hail struck everything that was in the field, both man and beast, throughout all the land of Egypt; and the
ahail struck all the vegetation of the field and shattered every tree of the field.
Exo. 9
:26
9:26
Only in the land of Goshen, where the
achildren of Israel were, was there no hail.
Exo. 9
:27
9:27
And Pharaoh sent
a messenger and called for Moses and Aaron; and he said to them, I have
asinned this time; Jehovah is the
brighteous One, and I and my people are in the wrong.
Exo. 9
:28
9:28
aEntreat Jehovah, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail; and
1I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.
Exo. 9
:29
9:29
And Moses said to him, As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my
ahands to Jehovah: The thunder will cease, and there will not be any more hail, that you may
bknow that the
cearth is Jehovah’s.
Exo. 9
:30
9:30
But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear Jehovah God.
Exo. 9
:31
9:31
(Now the flax and the barley were ruined, for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bud.
Exo. 9
:32
9:32
But the wheat and the spelt were not ruined, for they had not come up.)
Exo. 9
:33
9:33
And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and spread out his hands to Jehovah; and the thunder and hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured down on the earth.
Exo. 9
:34
9:34
But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned again and
ahardened his heart, he and his servants.
Exo. 9
:35
9:35
So Pharaoh’s heart
ahardened, and he did
bnot let the children of Israel go, just as Jehovah had spoken through Moses.
