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¹Forsooth the Lord said to Moses, Enter thou to Pharaoh, and speak thou to him, The Lord God of Hebrews saith these things, Deliver thou my people, that it make sacrifice to me;

²that if thou forsakest yet, and withholdest them,

³lo! mine hand shall be on thy fields, on the horses, and asses, and camels, and oxen, and sheep, a pestilence full grievous;

⁴and the Lord shall make a marvellous thing betwixt the possessions of Israel and the possessions of the Egyptians, that utterly nothing perish of these things that pertain to the sons of Israel.

⁵And the Lord ordained a time, and said, Tomorrow the Lord shall do this word in the land.

⁶Therefore the Lord made this word in the tother day, and all the living beasts of the Egyptians were dead; forsooth utterly nothing perished of the beasts of the sons of Israel.

⁷And Pharaoh sent to see, neither anything was dead of these things which Israel wielded; and the heart of Pharaoh was made full grievous, and he delivered not the people.

⁸And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Take ye your hands full of ashes of a chimney, and Moses sprinkle it into heaven before Pharaoh;

⁹and be there dust on all the land of Egypt; for why botches shall be in men, and in work beasts, and swelling bladders shall be in all the land of Egypt.

¹⁰And they took ashes of a chimney, and they stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it into heaven; and wounds of swelling bladders were made in men, and in work beasts;

¹¹and the witches might not stand before Moses, for the wounds, or sores, that were in them, and in all the land of Egypt.

¹²And the Lord made hard the heart of Pharaoh, and he heard not them, as the Lord spake to Moses.

¹³Also the Lord said to Moses, Rise thou early, and stand before Pharaoh, and thou shalt say to him, The Lord God of Hebrews saith these things, Deliver thou my people, that it make sacrifice to me;

¹⁴for in this time I shall send all my vengeances on thine heart, and on thy servants, and on thy people, that thou know, that none is like me in all the earth.

¹⁵For now I shall hold forth mine hand, and I shall smite thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou shalt perish from the earth;

¹⁶forsooth therefore I have set thee, that I show my strength in thee, and that my name be told in each land.

¹⁷Yet thou withholdest my people, and wilt not deliver it?

¹⁸Lo! tomorrow, in this same hour, I shall rain full much hail, what manner hail was not in Egypt, from the day in which it was founded, till into this present time.

¹⁹Therefore send thou right now, and gather thy work beasts, and all things that thou hast in the field; for men, and work beasts, and all things that be in fields withoutforth, and be not gathered from the fields, and the hail fall on those or them, they shall die.

²⁰He that dreaded the word of the Lord, of the servants of Pharaoh, made his servants and work beasts flee into houses;

²¹soothly he that despised the Lord’s word, left his servants and his work beasts in the fields.

²²And the Lord said to Moses, Hold forth thine hand into heaven, that hail be made in all the land of Egypt, on men, and on work beasts, and on each herb of the field in the land of Egypt.

²³And Moses held forth the rod into heaven; and the Lord gave thunders, and hail, and lightnings running about on the land; and the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt;

²⁴and hail and fire meddled or mingled together were borne forth; and it was of so much greatness, how great appeared never before in all the land of Egypt, since that people was made.

²⁵And the hail smote in all the land of Egypt all things that were in the fields, from man till to work beast; and the hail smote all the herb of the field, and brake all the flax of the country;

²⁶only the hail felled not in the land of Goshen, where the sons of Israel were.

²⁷And Pharaoh sent, and called Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have sinned also now; the Lord is just or rightwise, and I and my people be wicked;

²⁸pray ye the Lord, that the thunders and hail of God cease, and I shall deliver you, and dwell ye no more here.

²⁹Moses said, When I shall go out of the city, I shall hold forth mine hands to the Lord, and the lightnings and thunders shall cease, and hail shall not be, that thou know, that the earth is the Lord’s;

³⁰forsooth I know, that thou and thy servants dread not yet the Lord God.

³¹Therefore the flax and barley was hurt, for the barley was green, and the flax had burgeoned then knops;

³²forsooth wheat and beans were not hurt, for those or they were late sown.

³³And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and from the city, and held forth his hands to the Lord, and thunders and hail ceased, and the rain dropped no more on the earth.

³⁴Soothly Pharaoh saw that the rain had ceased, and the hail, and thunders, and he increased sin; and the heart of him, and of his servants, was made grievous,

³⁵and his heart was made hard greatly; neither he let go the sons of Israel, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses.