¹³ Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?”

¹⁴ And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ^(A)‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ” ¹⁵ Moreover God said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is ^(B)My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations.’

First Encounter with Pharaoh

5 Afterward Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘Let My people go, that they may ^[a]hold ^(A)a feast to Me in the wilderness.’ ”

² And Pharaoh said, ^(B)“Who is the Lord, that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, ^(C)nor will I let Israel go.”

The Seventh Plague: Hail

¹³ Then the Lord said to Moses, ^(A)“Rise early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh, and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord God of the Hebrews: “Let My people go, that they may ^(B)serve Me, ¹⁴ for at this time I will send all My plagues to your very heart, and on your servants and on your people, ^(C)that you may know that there is none like Me in all the earth. ¹⁵ Now if I had ^(D)stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with ^(E)pestilence, then you would have been cut off from the earth. ¹⁶ But indeed for ^(F)this purpose I have raised you up, that I may ^(G)show My power in you, and that My ^(H)name may be declared in all the earth. ¹⁷ As yet you exalt yourself against My people in that you will not let them go.

²⁷ And Pharaoh sent and ^(A)called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, ^(B)“I have sinned this time. ^(C)The Lord is righteous, and my people and I are wicked. ^28 (D)Entreat^[a] the Lord, that there may be no more ^[b]mighty thundering and hail, for it is enough. I will let you ^(E)go, and you shall stay no longer.”

²⁹ So Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will ^(F)spread out my hands to the Lord; the thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, that you may know that the ^(G)earth is the Lord’s. ³⁰ But as for you and your servants, ^(H)I know that you will not yet fear the Lord God.”

³¹ Now the flax and the barley were struck, ^(I)for the barley was in the head and the flax was in bud. ³² But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they are ^[c]late crops.

³³ So Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and ^(J)spread out his hands to the Lord; then the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth. ³⁴ And when Pharaoh saw that the rain, the hail, and the thunder had ceased, he sinned yet more; and he hardened his heart, he and his servants. ³⁵ So ^(K)the heart of Pharaoh was hard; neither would he let the children of Israel go, as the Lord had spoken by Moses.

²⁷ But the Lord ^(A)hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let them go. ²⁸ Then Pharaoh said to him, ^(B)“Get away from me! Take heed to yourself and see my face no more! For in the day you see my face you shall die!”

²⁹ So Moses said, “You have spoken well. ^(C)I will never see your face again.”

²⁷ But the Lord ^(A)hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let them go. ²⁸ Then Pharaoh said to him, ^(B)“Get away from me! Take heed to yourself and see my face no more! For in the day you see my face you shall die!”

²⁹ So Moses said, “You have spoken well. ^(C)I will never see your face again.”

²⁷ But the Lord ^(A)hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let them go. ²⁸ Then Pharaoh said to him, ^(B)“Get away from me! Take heed to yourself and see my face no more! For in the day you see my face you shall die!”

²⁹ So Moses said, “You have spoken well. ^(C)I will never see your face again.”

²⁷ But the Lord ^(A)hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let them go. ²⁸ Then Pharaoh said to him, ^(B)“Get away from me! Take heed to yourself and see my face no more! For in the day you see my face you shall die!”

²⁹ So Moses said, “You have spoken well. ^(C)I will never see your face again.”