Exodus 9 — Read & Listen Online | Father's Heart Bible™

A Plague on the Livestock

Chapter 9.

Then our Father said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and tell him, 'This is what our Father, the Father of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me.'" For if you refuse to let them go and keep holding them, then the hand of our Father will fall on your livestock in the field—on your horses, donkeys, camels, herds, and flocks—a very severe plague. But our Father will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that nothing belonging to the people of Israel will die."

And our Father set a time, saying, "Tomorrow our Father will do this in the land." The next day our Father did this very thing: all the livestock of Egypt died, but not one animal belonging to the people of Israel died. Pharaoh sent to check and found that not one animal of Israel's livestock had died. Yet his heart was hardened, and he would not let the people go.

Boils on Every Egyptian

Then our Father said to Moses and Aaron, "Take handfuls of soot from a kiln, and have Moses toss it into the air in front of Pharaoh. It will become fine dust over the whole land of Egypt, and on people and animals throughout Egypt it will break out into festering boils."

So they took soot from a kiln and stood before Pharaoh. Moses tossed it into the air, and festering boils broke out on people and animals. The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians. But our Father hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not listen to them, just as our Father had told Moses.

Warning Before the Storm

Then our Father said to Moses, "Get up early in the morning, present yourself before Pharaoh, and tell him, 'This is what the Father of the Hebrews says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me.' For this time I will send the full force of my plagues against you, your officials, and your people, so that you may know there is no one like me in all the earth. By now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with a plague that would have wiped you from the earth. But this is why I have raised you up: to show you my power and to proclaim my name throughout all the earth. ^a You are still setting yourself against my people and refusing to let them go. So at this time tomorrow I will send down a hailstorm so severe that nothing like it has been seen in Egypt from the day it was founded until now. Now send word and bring your livestock and everything you have in the field to shelter, for the hail will fall on every person and animal still in the field and not brought inside, and they will die."

Those among Pharaoh's officials who feared the word of our Father hurried their servants and livestock indoors, but those who paid no attention to the word of our Father left their servants and livestock out in the field.

Then our Father said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, so that hail will fall over the whole land of Egypt—on people, on animals, and on every plant of the field throughout Egypt."

So Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, and our Father sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the ground. Our Father rained hail on the land of Egypt. The hail fell, and fire flashed continually in the midst of it—hail so severe that nothing like it had been seen in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. Throughout Egypt the hail struck down everything in the field, both people and animals; it beat down every plant of the field and shattered every tree. Only in the land of Goshen, where the people of Israel lived, was there no hail.

Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and said to them, "This time I have sinned. The Sovereign Father is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong. Plead with the Sovereign Father, for there has been more than enough of our Father's thunder and hail. I will let you go; you don't have to stay any longer."

Moses said to him, "As soon as I leave the city, I will spread out my hands to our Father. The thunder will stop and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth belongs to the Sovereign Father. But as for you and your officials, I know that you still do not fear our Father."

(The flax and the barley were ruined, for the barley had formed heads and the flax was in bud. But the wheat and the emmer wheat were not ruined, because they ripen later.) So Moses left Pharaoh and went out of the city, and he spread out his hands to our Father. The thunder and hail stopped, and the rain no longer poured down on the land. But when Pharaoh saw that the rain, hail, and thunder had stopped, he sinned again and hardened his heart, along with his officials. So Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he would not let the people of Israel go, just as our Father had said through Moses.

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