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Exodus 9:22-26. Hail and fire. Dramatic wide single scene of the hail plague. Moses in left foreground three-quarter profile, matching long white hair and beard, crimson mantle and cream robe, raises his gnarled wooden staff toward a dark storm sky. Heavy natural white hailstones streak down across barley and flax fields, pounding plants and breaking tree branches. Jagged lightning flashes down amid the hail in the middle distance, a few brief fire flashes on distant struck trees, no glowing staff or magical beam. Wind pulls his mantle, natural balanced stance and gripping hand. Low Egyptian mudbrick farm buildings in distance, people only tiny sheltering silhouettes, no graphic injuries. Deep blue-gray storm against muted ochre fields and crimson focal figure, hand-inked gouache texture. No Pharaoh, Aaron, text or visible deity. Bronze Age Exodus setting, not first-century staging. One 16:9 single scene. No text or lettering.
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Exodus 9:22-26

Hail and fire

A warning for the herds · Exodus 9

Story guide: Moses raises his staff and a devastating storm strikes Egypt; Goshen is spared.

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22Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, so that hail may come over all the land of Egypt—on man and on beast and on every plant of the field in the land of Egypt.”

23So Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, and Yahweh sent thunder and hail, and fire came down to the earth. And Yahweh rained hail on the land of Egypt.

24There was hail, and fire flashing within the hail, very severe—such as had never been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

25And the hail struck throughout all the land of Egypt everything that was in the field, from man to beast. The hail struck every plant of the field, and shattered every tree of the field.

26Only in the land of Goshen, where the sons of Israel were, was there no hail.

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