🔥WEB · Exodus 9:19

What does Exodus 9:19 mean?

"Now therefore command that all of your livestock and all that you have in the field be brought into shelter. Every man and animal that is found in the field, and isn’t brought home, the hail shall come down on them, and they shall die.”’”"

— Exodus 9:19 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

16

but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth;

17

as you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won’t let them go.

18

Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now.

19

Now therefore command that all of your livestock and all that you have in the field be brought into shelter. Every man and animal that is found in the field, and isn’t brought home, the hail shall come down on them, and they shall die.”’”

20

Those who feared Yahweh’s word among the servants of Pharaoh made their servants and their livestock flee into the houses.

21

Whoever didn’t respect Yahweh’s word left his servants and his livestock in the field.

22

Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man, and on animal, and on every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.”

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