Holy Scripture

Exodus 9:18

A church father on this verse
“After these plagues come blows from on high: voices, thunder and hail, and flashing fire. Thunder means reproaches and divine rebukes, because it does not strike in silence. It makes sounds and sends its teaching down from heaven. By its teaching the world is castigated and can acknowledge its guilt.And he sends hail,…”
Isidore of Seville, 7th c. — QUESTIONS ON THE OLD TESTAMENT, EX 14:12-13

Source: Septuagint

Original

18Behold, tomorrow at this hour I will rain a very great hail, such as has not been in Egypt, from the time it was created until this day.

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In context

16And for this purpose hast thou been preserved, that I might display in thee my strength, and that my name might be published in all the earth.

17Dost thou then yet exert thyself to hinder my people, so as not to let them go?

— Exodus 9:18 —

19Now then hasten to gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the fields; for all the men and cattle as many as shall be found in the fields, and shall not enter into a house (but the hail shall fall upon them), shall die.

20He of the servants of Pharaoh that feared the word of the Lord, gathered his cattle into the houses.

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