12 But the Lord made Pharaoh stubborn, and Pharaoh wouldn’t listen to them, just as the Lord had said to Moses.
13 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Get up early in the morning and confront Pharaoh. Say to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go so that they can worship me.
14 This time I’m going to send all my plagues on you, your officials, and your people so that you will know that there is no one like me in the whole world.
15 By now I could have used my power to strike you and your people with a deadly disease so that you would have disappeared from the earth.
16 But I’ve left you standing for this reason: in order to show you my power and in order to make my name known in the whole world.
17 You are still abusing your power against my people, and you refuse to let them go.
18 Tomorrow at this time I’ll cause the heaviest hail to fall on Egypt that has ever fallen from the day Egypt was founded until now.