Exodus 9:18-26

New Catholic Bible

¹⁸ Behold, I will send a terribly violent hail tomorrow at this time as has never been seen in Egypt from the day it was founded until today. ¹⁹ Send word to gather your animals and whatever is in the field into a safe shelter. Hail will fall upon all the people and upon all the animals that are in open countryside and that have not been brought into shelter, and they will die.” ’ ”

²⁰ Some of the ministers of Pharaoh feared the Lord and brought their slaves and their animals into shelter.^{[a] 21} Others did not take the words of the Lord to heart, and they left their slaves and their animals in the open countryside.

²² The Lord said to Moses, “Stretch your hand out toward the heavens. Let there be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon people, upon animals, and upon the plants of the field throughout the land of Egypt.” ²³ Moses stretched his staff toward the heavens, and the Lord sent thunder and hail. Lightning struck the earth, and the Lord made hail rain down upon the land of Egypt. ²⁴ There was hail and lightning in the midst of the hail. The hail was so violent that nothing like it had ever been seen in the entire land of Egypt from the day it had become a nation. ²⁵ The hail struck every person and animal that was in the open countryside throughout the land of Egypt. The hail also struck the plants in the field and splintered every tree in the open countryside. ²⁶ Only the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel lived, had no hail.