# Exodus 9

> Lumin Translation

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Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me.
2. If you refuse to let them go and keep holding on to them,
3. the hand of Yahweh will come with a very severe plague on your livestock in the field—on the horses, the donkeys, the camels, the herds, and the flocks.
4. But Yahweh will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that nothing belonging to the Israelites will die.’”
5. Yahweh set a time, saying, “Tomorrow Yahweh will do this in the land.”
6. And the next day Yahweh did it. All the livestock of the Egyptians died, but not one of the livestock of the Israelites died.
7. Pharaoh sent men to look, and not one of the livestock of Israel had died. But Pharaoh’s heart was stubborn, and he did not let the people go.
8. Then Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of soot from a kiln, and have Moses toss it into the air in the sight of Pharaoh.
9. It will become fine dust over the whole land of Egypt, and it will become boils breaking out in sores on people and animals throughout the land of Egypt.”
10. So they took soot from a kiln and stood before Pharaoh. Moses tossed it into the air, and it became boils breaking out in sores on people and animals.
11. The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians.
12. But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not listen to them, just as Yahweh had told Moses.
13. Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning, present yourself to Pharaoh, and say to him, ‘This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me.
14. For this time I am sending all my plagues against your heart, and on your officials and your people, so that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.
15. For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with plague, and you would have been wiped off the earth.
16. But I have let you stand for this very reason: to show you my power, and so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.
17. You are still setting yourself against my people by not letting them go.
18. Look, at this time tomorrow I will rain down a very heavy hail, such as has never been in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.
19. Now send word and bring your livestock and everything you have in the field to shelter. Every person and animal that is in the field and has not been brought inside will die when the hail comes down on them.’”
20. Those of Pharaoh’s officials who feared the word of Yahweh hurried their servants and their livestock into shelter.
21. But those who paid no attention to the word of Yahweh left their servants and their livestock in the field.
22. Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, so that hail will fall on the whole land of Egypt—on people and animals and on every plant of the field throughout the land of Egypt.”
23. When Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, Yahweh sent thunder and hail, and fire came down to the earth. So Yahweh rained hail on the land of Egypt.
24. There was hail, with fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail. It was very heavy, such as had never been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
25. Throughout the land of Egypt the hail struck down everything that was in the field, both people and animals. The hail struck down every plant of the field and shattered every tree of the field.
26. Only in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites were, was there no hail.
27. Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and said to them, “This time I have sinned. Yahweh is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong.
28. Pray to Yahweh, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go; you do not need to stay any longer.”
29. Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to Yahweh. The thunder will stop, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth belongs to Yahweh.
30. But as for you and your officials, I know that you still do not fear Yahweh God.”
31. The flax and the barley were struck down, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bloom.
32. But the wheat and the spelt were not struck down, for they ripen later.
33. So Moses left Pharaoh, went out of the city, and spread out his hands to Yahweh. The thunder and the hail stopped, and the rain no longer poured down on the earth.
34. But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had stopped, he sinned again. He made his heart stubborn, he and his officials.
35. So Pharaoh’s heart was hard, and he did not let the Israelites go, just as Yahweh had said 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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