The language of ivrit ( עברית ) Exodus 9, Post #6
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Exodus 9:22-26
Last week, we saw El Shadai (The Almighty) telling Far'oh (Pharaoh) and some onlookers to take cover because of a coming plague of hail. Many of those that heard the threat ran to protect their animals. This week we see the fulfillment of what was promised.
God, it seems, always uses a person when he is about to do something massive. The person's obedience and willingness to involve themselves in the miracle is seen whether it is a plague of hail or just an individual who cannot seem to forgive someone. In the latter, a prayer saying you want to forgive is enough for the Creator to make it happen, and I am living proof of that (seed for another post maybe). In the case of Moshe (Moses), he is instructed to stretch his hands toward heaven. The text says Moshe did that and YHVH sent thunder and hail. So it was not Moshe doing this deed, but he did the smallest part of it. The first fraction of a percent.
The rest of this passage speaks of every living thing hit by this particular hail dying, including plants, and the trees having limbs broken off. The scriptures were clear about the fact though, that there was no hail in the land of Goshen, where God's people were.
Today's reading
English
Then YHVH said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man and beast and every plant of the field, in the land of Egypt." Then Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and YHVH sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth. And YHVH rained hail upon the land of Egypt. There was hail and fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, very heavy hail, such as had never been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. The hail struck down everything that was in the field in all the land of Egypt, both man and beast. And the hail struck down every plant of the field and broke every tree of the field. Only in the land of Goshen, where the people of Israel were, was there no hail.
Hebrew
Next week, Far'oh bows to Moshe, beaten and downtrodden...
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