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    Exodus 9

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    Egyptian livestock first all die, and later Egyptian officials hurry other livestock indoors before the hail; the text leaves the survivors standing in that peculiar gap.

    The distinction, and the sootvv. 1–12

    The LORD sends Moses to Pharaoh with the familiar demand: let the people go and worship. This time the warning falls on livestock, with a careful division between Israel’s animals and Egypt’s. The next day the division is carried out exactly as announced: the Egyptians’ livestock dies, while Israel’s does not. Pharaoh investigates, discovers the distinction, and hardens his heart—a small inquiry followed by a very large refusal.

    Then Moses and Aaron take soot from the furnace. Moses tosses it into the air before Pharaoh, and it becomes fine dust, producing festering boils on people and animals throughout Egypt. The magicians cannot stand before Moses, being afflicted themselves. Pharaoh, meanwhile, remains magnificently unavailable to the evidence.

    The worst hailvv. 13–26

    The next warning is larger and more deliberate. Moses is told to rise early and stand before Pharaoh, while Pharaoh is told that he has been raised up so that power may be displayed and the name of the LORD proclaimed throughout the earth. Hail is announced for the following day, with an oddly practical instruction attached: bring livestock and servants indoors.

    Some officials fear the word of the LORD and hurry to shelter what they have; others leave their servants and livestock in the field. Moses stretches out his staff, and thunder, hail, and lightning arrive together. The storm strikes people, beasts, plants, and trees throughout Egypt. Only Goshen escapes the weather, sitting under its remarkably well-defined patch of sky.

    A confession with a short shelf lifevv. 27–35

    Pharaoh summons Moses and Aaron during the storm and makes a plain confession: he and his people are wicked, while the LORD is righteous. He promises release once the thunder and hail have stopped. Moses agrees to spread out his hands after leaving the city, but gives Pharaoh’s officials no such flattering assessment; he knows they still do not fear the LORD.

    Then, in the middle of the devastation, comes a precise little agricultural inventory. Flax and barley are gone, while wheat and spelt survive because their season is late. Moses leaves the city, spreads out his hands, and the weather ceases. Pharaoh sees the cessation, sins again, hardens his heart, and does not let Israel go. The promise lasts rather less time than the hail.

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    1. Exod 9:1Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and tell him that this is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.

    2. Exod 9:2But if you continue to restrain them and refuse to let them go,

    3. Exod 9:3then the hand of the LORD will bring a severe plague on your livestock in the field—on your horses, donkeys, camels, herds, and flocks.

    4. Exod 9:4But the LORD will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that no animal belonging to the Israelites will die.’”

    5. Exod 9:5The LORD set a time, saying, “Tomorrow the LORD will do this in the land.”

    6. Exod 9:6And the next day the LORD did just that. All the livestock of the Egyptians died, but not one animal belonging to the Israelites died.

    7. Exod 9:7Pharaoh sent officials and found that none of the livestock of the Israelites had died. But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not let the people go.

    8. Exod 9:8Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of soot from the furnace; in the sight of Pharaoh, Moses is to toss it into the air.

    9. Exod 9:9It will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and festering boils will break out on man and beast throughout the land.”

    10. Exod 9:10So they took soot from the furnace and stood before Pharaoh. Moses tossed it into the air, and festering boils broke out on man and beast.

    11. Exod 9:11The magicians could not stand before Moses, because the boils had broken out on them and on all the Egyptians.

    12. Exod 9:12But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said to Moses.

    13. Exod 9:13Then the LORD said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning, stand before Pharaoh, and tell him that this is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.

    14. Exod 9:14Otherwise, I will send all My plagues against you and your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth.

    15. Exod 9:15For by this time I could have stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with a plague to wipe you off the earth.

    16. Exod 9:16But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power to you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.

    17. Exod 9:17Still, you lord it over My people and do not allow them to go.

    18. Exod 9:18Behold, at this time tomorrow I will rain down the worst hail that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded until now.

    19. Exod 9:19So give orders now to shelter your livestock and everything you have in the field. Every man or beast that remains in the field and is not brought inside will die when the hail comes down upon them.’”

    20. Exod 9:20Those among Pharaoh’s officials who feared the word of the LORD hurried to bring their servants and livestock to shelter,

    21. Exod 9:21but those who disregarded the word of the LORD left their servants and livestock in the field.

    22. Exod 9:22Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that hail may fall on all the land of Egypt—on man and beast and every plant of the field throughout the land of Egypt.”

    23. Exod 9:23So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning struck the earth. So the LORD rained down hail upon the land of Egypt.

    24. Exod 9:24The hail fell and the lightning continued flashing through it. The hail was so severe that nothing like it had ever been seen in all the land of Egypt from the time it became a nation.

    25. Exod 9:25Throughout the land of Egypt, the hail struck down everything in the field, both man and beast; it beat down every plant of the field and stripped every tree.

    26. Exod 9:26The only place where it did not hail was in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites lived.

    27. Exod 9:27Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron. “This time I have sinned,” he said. “The LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

    28. Exod 9:28Pray to the LORD, 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. Exod 9:29Moses said to him, “When I have left the city, I will spread out my hands to the LORD. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the LORD’s.

    30. Exod 9:30But as for you and your officials, I know that you still do not fear the LORD our God.”

    31. Exod 9:31(Now the flax and barley were destroyed, since the barley was ripe and the flax was in bloom;

    32. Exod 9:32but the wheat and spelt were not destroyed, because they are late crops.)

    33. Exod 9:33Then Moses departed from Pharaoh, went out of the city, and spread out his hands to the LORD. The thunder and hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured down on the land.

    34. Exod 9:34When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart—he and his officials.

    35. Exod 9:35So Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not let the Israelites go, just as the LORD had said through Moses.

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    • 16Romans 9:17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
    • 16Proverbs 16:4The LORD has made everything for His purpose—even the wicked for the day of disaster.
    • 16Psalms 83:17–18May they be ever ashamed and terrified; may they perish in disgrace.
    • 9Revelation 16:2So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and loathsome, malignant sores broke out on those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.
    • 161 Chronicles 16:24Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all peoples.
    • 16Psalms 64:9Then all mankind will fear and proclaim the work of God; so they will ponder what He has done.
    • 26Exodus 11:7But among all the Israelites, not even a dog will snarl at man or beast.’ Then you will know that the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.
    • 4Exodus 8:22But on that day I will give special treatment to the land of Goshen, where My people live; no swarms of flies will be found there. In this way you will know that I, the LORD, am in the land.
    • 9Deuteronomy 28:27The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors and scabs and itch from which you cannot be cured.
    • 12Exodus 4:21The LORD instructed Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put within your power. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.
    • 23Psalms 18:13The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded—hailstones and coals of fire.
    • 23Joshua 10:11As they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the LORD cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by the swords of the Israelites.
    • 26Exodus 9:4But the LORD will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that no animal belonging to the Israelites will die.’”
    • 26Exodus 10:23No one could see anyone else, and for three days no one left his place. Yet all the Israelites had light in their dwellings.
    • 30Isaiah 26:10Though grace is shown to the wicked man, he does not learn righteousness. In the land of righteousness he acts unjustly and fails to see the majesty of the LORD.
    • 1Exodus 8:1Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and tell him that this is what the LORD says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.

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