The Plague of Hail
Exodus 9:18 –34
Truly,
tomorrow about this time I will send down an ice-storm, such as never was in
Egypt from its earliest days till now. Then send quickly and get in your cattle
and all you have from the fields; for if any man or beast in the field has not
been put under cover, the ice-storm will come down on them with destruction.
Then everyone among the servants of Pharaoh who had the fear of the Lord, made
his servants and his cattle come quickly into the house: And he who gave
no attention to the word of the Lord, kept his servants and his cattle in the
field. And the Lord said to Moses, Now let your hand
be stretched out to heaven so that there may be an ice-storm on all the land of
Egypt, on man and on beast and on every plant of the field through all the land
of Egypt. And Moses put out his rod to heaven: and the Lord sent thunder, and
an ice-storm, and fire running down on the earth; the Lord sent an ice-storm on
the land of Egypt. So there was an ice-storm with fire running through
it, coming down with great force, such as never was in all the land of Egypt
from the time when it became a nation. And through all the land of Egypt the
ice-storm came down on everything which was in the fields, on man and on beast;
and every green plant was crushed and every tree of the field broken. Only in
the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no ice-storm.
