Exodus
Chapter 9
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1God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., the God of the Hebrews, says: Send my people away, so they can serve me.
2If you refuse to send them away and you still hold them,
3look, God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s hand is coming on your livestock in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the herd, and on the flock, a very heavy A deadly sickness that spreads..
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Dever is a pestilence, a plague on animals. “Pestilence” is printed.
4God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. will distinguish between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, and not a thing that belongs to the sons of Israel will die.’”
5God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. set an appointed time, saying, “Tomorrow God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. will do this thing in the land.”
6God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. did this thing the next day. All the livestock of Egypt died, and of the livestock of the sons of Israel not one died.
7Pharaoh sent, and look, not one of Israel’s livestock had died. And Pharaoh’s heart was heavy, and he did not send the people away.
8God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. said to Moses and to Aaron, “Take yourselves handfuls of soot from a kiln, and let Moses throw it toward the sky in Pharaoh’s sight.
9It will become dust over all the land of Egypt, and it will become, on humans and on animals, a boil breaking out in sores, in all the land of Egypt.”
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Shechin poreach avabu’ot is a boil that flowers into blisters. “A boil breaking out in sores” is printed.
10They took the kiln soot and stood before Pharaoh, and Moses threw it toward the sky, and it became a boil of sores breaking out on humans and on animals.
11The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, because the boils were on the magicians and on all Egypt.
12God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. strengthened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not listen to them, as God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. had said to Moses.
13God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and station yourself before Pharaoh, and say to him, ‘This is what God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., the God of the Hebrews, says: Send my people away, so they can serve me.
14For this time I am sending all my blows to your heart, and on your servants, and on your people, so that you know that there is no one like me in all the land.
15For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with the A deadly sickness that spreads., and you would have been wiped off the land.
16But for this reason I have kept you standing: to show you my power, and so that my name is recounted in all the land.
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He’emadtikha is “I have made you stand,” “I have kept you in place.” “I raised you up” is the live alternative.
17You are still exalting yourself against my people, and not sending them away.
18Look, tomorrow about this time I am going to rain a very heavy hail, such as has not been in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.
19Now send, bring in your livestock and everything you have in the field. Every human and animal that is found in the field and not gathered into the house, the hail will come down on them and they will die.’”
20Whoever among Pharaoh’s servants feared God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s word hurried his servants and his livestock into the houses.
21Whoever did not set his heart on God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s word left his servants and his livestock in the field.
22God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, and let there be hail in all the land of Egypt, on humans, on animals, and on every plant of the field in the land of Egypt.”
23Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, and God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. gave thunder and hail, and fire went toward the land. God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. rained hail on the land of Egypt.
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Qolot are voices, thunder. “Thunder” is printed. “Voices” is the live alternative.
24There was hail, and fire flashing continually inside the hail, very heavy, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
25The hail struck everything in the field, from human to animal, in all the land of Egypt. The hail struck every plant of the field and shattered every tree of the field.
26Only in the land of Goshen, where the sons of Israel were, there was no hail.
27Pharaoh sent and called Moses and Aaron and said to them, “I have done wrong this time. God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong.
28Plead with God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.. There has been enough of God’s thunder and the hail. I will send you away, and you will not stay any longer.”
29Moses said to him, “When I go out of the city I will spread my palms to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.. The thunder will stop, and the hail will be no more, so that you know that the land is God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s.
30But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. God.”
31The flax and the barley were struck, because the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud.
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Aviv is the barley in the ear. Giv’ol is the flax in bud, the round head. Both stages are printed.
32The wheat and the emmer were not struck, because they come late.
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Kussemet is a wheat-like grain. “Emmer” is printed. “Spelt” is the live alternative. The Hebrew does not name a modern species more tightly. Afilot means they are late.
33Moses went out from Pharaoh, out of the city, and spread his palms to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.. The thunder and the hail stopped, and rain no longer poured on the land.
34Pharaoh saw that the rain, the hail, and the thunder had stopped, and he went on doing wrong, and he made his heart heavy, he and his servants.
35Pharaoh’s heart was strong, and he did not send the sons of Israel away, as God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. had said by Moses’ hand.