Exodus 9 (NET)

NET Bible® Scripture text without NET Bible notes. Verse anchors allow direct linking to exact verses.

Exodus 9:1¹Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and tell him, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has said, “Release my people that they may serve me!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 8:1 Exod 10:3 Exod 8:20 Exod 9:13 Exod 3:18 Exod 4:22-23 Exod 5:1

Exodus 9:2²For if you refuse to release them and continue holding them,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 8:2 Exod 10:4 Exod 4:23 Isa 1:20 Lev 26:14-16 Lev 26:23-24 Lev 26:27-28 Ps 68:21 Ps 7:11-12 Rev 16:9

Exodus 9:3³then the hand of the Lord will surely bring a very terrible plague on your livestock in the field, on the horses, the donkeys, the camels, the herds, and the flocks.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 7:4 Acts 13:11 1 Sam 5:6-11 1 Sam 6:9 Exod 5:3 Exod 8:19

Exodus 9:4⁴But the Lord will distinguish between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, and nothing will die of all that the Israelites have.”’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 8:22 Exod 10:23 Exod 12:13 Isa 65:13-14 Mal 3:18

Exodus 9:5⁵The Lord set an appointed time, saying, “Tomorrow the Lord will do this in the land.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 8:23 Eccl 3:1-11 Exod 10:4 Exod 9:18 Jer 28:16-17 Job 24:1 Matt 27:63-64 Num 16:5

Exodus 9:6⁶And the Lord did this on the next day; all the livestock of the Egyptians died, but of the Israelites’ livestock not one died.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 78:48 Exod 9:25 Ps 78:50 Exod 9:19-20

Exodus 9:7⁷Pharaoh sent representatives to investigate, and indeed, not even one of the livestock of Israel had died. But Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, and he did not release the people.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 7:14 Exod 8:32 Dan 5:20 Exod 9:12 Isa 48:4 Job 9:4 Prov 29:1 Rom 9:18

Exodus 9:8⁸Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of soot from a furnace, and have Moses throw it into the air while Pharaoh is watching.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 8:16

Exodus 9:9⁹It will become fine dust over the whole land of Egypt and will cause boils to break out and fester on both people and animals in all the land of Egypt.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 16:2 Deut 28:27 Deut 28:35 Job 2:7 Lev 13:18-20

Exodus 9:10¹⁰So they took soot from a furnace and stood before Pharaoh, Moses threw it into the air, and it caused festering boils to break out on both people and animals.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 28:27

Exodus 9:11¹¹The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Tim 3:8-9 Isa 47:12-14 Exod 7:11-12 Exod 8:18-19 Rev 16:2

Exodus 9:12¹²But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had predicted to Moses.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 4:21 Exod 7:13-14 Ps 81:11-12 Rev 16:10-11

Exodus 9:13¹³The Lord said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning, stand before Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has said: “Release my people so that they may serve me!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 8:20 Exod 7:15 Exod 9:1

Exodus 9:14¹⁴For this time I will send all my plagues on your very self and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 8:10 1 Chr 17:20 1 Kgs 8:38 1 Sam 4:8 2 Sam 7:22 Deut 28:15-17 Deut 28:59-61 Deut 29:20-22 Deut 32:39-42 Isa 46:9

Exodus 9:15¹⁵For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with plague, and you would have been destroyed from the earth.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 3:20 1 Kgs 13:34 Exod 11:4-6 Exod 12:29-30 Exod 14:28 Exod 9:16 Exod 9:3 Exod 9:6 Prov 2:22

Exodus 9:16¹⁶But for this purpose I have caused you to stand: to show you my strength, and so that my name may be declared in all the earth.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rom 9:17 Prov 16:4 Ps 83:17-18 1 Chr 16:24 Ps 64:9 Exod 14:17 Exod 14:4 Exod 18:11 Mal 1:11 Rom 9:22

Exodus 9:17¹⁷You are still exalting yourself against my people by not releasing them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 10:22 Acts 12:23 Isa 10:15 Isa 26:11 Isa 37:23-24 Isa 37:29 Isa 45:9 Job 15:25-26 Job 40:9 Job 9:4

Exodus 9:18¹⁸I am going to cause very severe hail to rain down about this time tomorrow, such hail as has never occurred in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 19:2 1 Kgs 20:6 2 Kgs 7:1 Exod 9:22-25 Ps 83:15 2 Kgs 7:18

Exodus 9:19¹⁹So now, send instructions to gather your livestock and all your possessions in the fields to a safe place. Every person or animal caught in the field and not brought into the house—the hail will come down on them, and they will die!”’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Hab 3:2

Exodus 9:20²⁰Those of Pharaoh’s servants who feared the Lord ’s message hurried to bring their servants and livestock into the houses,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 13:13 Prov 22:3 Heb 11:7 Jonah 3:5-6 Mark 13:14-16 Prov 16:16 Prov 22:23

Exodus 9:21²¹but those who did not take the Lord ’s message seriously left their servants and their cattle in the field.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Chr 22:19 1 Sam 4:20 Dan 10:12 Exod 7:23 Ezek 40:4 Job 34:14 Job 7:17 Prov 24:32

Exodus 9:22²²Then the Lord said to Moses, “Extend your hand toward the sky that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on people and on animals, and on everything that grows in the field in the land of Egypt.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 16:21 Exod 7:19 Exod 8:16 Exod 8:5

Exodus 9:23²³When Moses extended his staff toward the sky, the Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire fell to the earth; so the Lord caused hail to rain down on the land of Egypt.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Josh 10:11 Ps 18:13 Ezek 38:22 Isa 30:30 Ps 148:8 Ps 78:47-48 Rev 8:7 Ps 105:32-33 Ps 29:3 Ps 77:18

Exodus 9:24²⁴Hail fell and fire mingled with the hail; the hail was so severe that there had not been any like it in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 10:6 Exod 9:23 Matt 24:21

Exodus 9:25²⁵The hail struck everything in the open fields, both people and animals, throughout all the land of Egypt. The hail struck everything that grows in the field, and it broke all the trees of the field to pieces.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 105:32-33 Ps 78:47

Exodus 9:26²⁶Only in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites lived, was there no hail.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 11:7 Exod 10:23 Exod 9:4 Exod 12:13 Exod 9:6 Exod 8:22-32 Isa 32:18-19

Exodus 9:27²⁷So Pharaoh sent and summoned Moses and Aaron and said to them, “I have sinned this time! The Lord is righteous, and I and my people are guilty.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 12:6 Exod 10:16 Lam 1:18 Ps 129:4 Ps 145:17 Dan 9:14 Matt 27:4 Num 22:34 Rom 2:5 Rom 3:19

Exodus 9:28²⁸Pray to the Lord, for the mighty thunderings and hail are too much! I will release you and you will stay no longer.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 8:8 Exod 10:17 Exod 8:28 Acts 8:24 Exod 11:1 Ps 29:3-4

Exodus 9:29²⁹Moses said to him, “When I leave the city I will spread my hands to the Lord, the thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth belongs to the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 10:26 1 Kgs 8:22 1 Kgs 8:38 Isa 1:15 Ps 143:6 Deut 10:14 1 Cor 10:28 2 Chr 6:12-13 Exod 19:5 Exod 9:33

Exodus 9:30³⁰But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear the Lord God.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 26:10 Prov 16:6 Isa 63:17

Exodus 9:31³¹(Now the flax and the barley were struck by the hail, for the barley had ripened and the flax was in bud.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ruth 1:22 Ruth 2:23 Amos 4:9 Hab 3:17

Exodus 9:32³²But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they are later crops.)Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 10:22

Exodus 9:33³³So Moses left Pharaoh, went out of the city, and spread out his hands to the Lord, and the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain stopped pouring on the earth.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 9:29 Exod 8:12 Exod 10:18-19 Jas 5:17-18

Exodus 9:34³⁴When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder ceased, he sinned again: both he and his servants hardened their hearts.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 7:14 2 Chr 28:22 2 Chr 33:23 2 Chr 36:13 Eccl 8:11 Exod 4:21 Exod 8:15 Rom 2:4-5

Exodus 9:35³⁵So Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, and he did not release the Israelites, as the Lord had predicted through Moses.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 4:21