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Exodus 9:13-19. Bring them to safety. Morning warning before the hailstorm. In the established Egyptian audience hall, Moses in crimson and cream stands close to the throne platform and speaks solemnly to Pharaoh. Compose from slightly behind Pharaoh right foreground toward the clear three-quarter face of Moses left center, giving this audience a different viewpoint. Pharaoh blue-and-gold nemes recognizable in profile, his hand resting on the throne arm. Moses long white hair and beard, gnarled staff vertical, free hand pointing gently toward an open palace doorway where a pale dry morning is visible. No rain or hail yet. Use reference for painted columns and throne only, exactly two people, no Aaron. Natural light, restrained graphic-novel ink and gouache, no lettering or deity. Bronze Age Exodus setting, not first-century staging. One 16:9 single scene. No text or lettering.
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Exodus 9:13-19

Bring them to safety

A warning for the herds · Exodus 9

Story guide: Moses warns Pharaoh of severe hail and tells him to bring people and animals inside.

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13Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Rise early in the morning and present yourself before Pharaoh, and say to him, ‘Thus says Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews: Let my people go, so that they may serve me.’”

14For this time I am sending all my plagues against your heart, and against your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.

15For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth.

16But for this purpose I have let you stand: to show you my power, and so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.

17Are you still exalting yourself against my people by not letting them go?

18Behold, about this time tomorrow I will rain down very heavy hail, such as has never been in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

19So now, send word and bring your livestock and everything you have in the field to safety. Every man and beast that is found in the field and is not gathered into the house—the hail will come down on them, and they will die.

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