Exodus chapter 9

After reading chapter 9:

 *God tells Moses to tell Pharoah there will be a plague on all the livestock if he doesn't let the Iraelites go. The Israelites' animals would not be affected. The next day, all the Egyptian livestock died, the Israelite livestock did not die. Pharoah still would not let the people go.

*Then God told Moses to take soot from a furnace and toss it into the air in front of Pharoah. The soot would become fine dust and cause festering boils on all the men and animals in Egypt. (Wait a minute, weren't all the animals dead from the previous plague?) Even the magicians had boils. Pharoah still would not let the people go. Today we know that boils are caused by bacteria.

*Now God tells Moses to tell Pharoah he hasn't seen anything yet. God is now going to unleash the full force of his plagues. If he wanted to, he could wipe them out. In fact it was God who made them great, just so he could perform this demonstration of his power. The next show would be the hailstorm of all hailstorms. They better bring their livestock and slaves indoors. (Um, what livestock??) So, Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky and there was a violent hailstorm. All the livestock left outdoors was struck. (again) Everything growing in the fields was beat down and all the trees were stripped, but not where the Israelites lived. We are told it was just the barley and flax that had been destroyed, not the wheat and spelt.

*Pharoah summoned Moses and Aaron. He said, "Yahweh is right, we are wrong. Make it stop hailing and you can go." Moses went out of the city and spread his hands toward the lord (Where is that?). The hail stopped and Pharoah changed his mind. He wouldn't let the Israelites go.