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But the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he would not let the people go.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Sixth Plague: Boils</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Then the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of soot from the kiln, and let Moses throw it in the air in the sight of Pharaoh. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>It shall become fine dust all over the land of Egypt, and shall cause festering boils on humans and animals throughout the whole land of Egypt.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>So they took soot from the kiln, and stood before Pharaoh, and Moses threw it in the air, and it caused festering boils on humans and animals. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils afflicted the magicians as well as all the Egyptians. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>But the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he would not listen to them, just as the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> had spoken to Moses.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Seventh Plague: Thunder and Hail</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Then the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning and present yourself before Pharaoh, and say to him, ‘Thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, the God of the Hebrews: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>For this time I will send all my plagues upon you yourself, and upon your officials, and upon your people, so that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>But this is why I have let you live: to show you my power, and to make my name resound through all the earth. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>You are still exalting yourself against my people, and will not let them go. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Tomorrow at this time I will cause the heaviest hail to fall that has ever fallen in Egypt from the day it was founded until now. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>Send, therefore, and have your livestock and everything that you have in the open field brought to a secure place; every human or animal that is in the open field and is not brought under shelter will die when the hail comes down upon them.’” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>Those officials of Pharaoh who feared the word of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> hurried their slaves and livestock off to a secure place. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>Those who did not regard the word of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> left their slaves and livestock in the open field.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven so that hail may fall on the whole land of Egypt, on humans and animals and all the plants of the field in the land of Egypt.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>Then Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> sent thunder and hail, and fire came down on the earth. And the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> rained hail on the land of Egypt; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>there was hail with fire flashing continually in the midst of it, such heavy hail as had never fallen in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>The hail struck down everything that was in the open field throughout all the land of Egypt, both human and animal; the hail also struck down all the plants of the field, and shattered every tree in the field. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>Only in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites were, there was no hail.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “This time I have sinned; the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>Pray to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>! Enough of God’s thunder and hail! I will let you go; you need stay no longer.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will stretch out my hands to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>; the thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>’s. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>But as for you and your officials, I know that you do not yet fear the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> God.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>(Now the flax and the barley were ruined, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">32</span>But the wheat and the spelt were not ruined, for they are late in coming up.) </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">33</span>So Moses left Pharaoh, went out of the city, and stretched out his hands to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>; then the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured down on the earth. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">34</span>But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned once more and hardened his heart, he and his officials. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">35</span>So the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he would not let the Israelites go, just as the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> had spoken through Moses.</span></p> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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