Thus said Jehovah the God of the Hebrews, Send My people away, and let them serve Me. For this time I am sending all My plagues onto your heart, and onto your servants, and onto your people, in order that you may know that there is none like Me in the whole earth. For now I could stretch out^a My hand, and strike you and your people with pestilence, and you would be cut off from the earth. But yet for this reason have I caused you to stand^b - for you to see My power, and in order that My name may be declared in the whole earth. You go on exalting yourself against My people by not sending them away. Behold, about this time tomorrow I am causing it to rain an extremely heavy hail, of which there has not been the like in Egypt from the day it was founded even until now.

'And Jehovah said to Moses' means further instruction about what had to be done. 'Rise up in the morning early, and stand before Pharaoh' means raising those engaged in molestation to a higher level of awareness, by being present with them. 'And you are to say to him, Thus said Jehovah the God of the Hebrews' means a command from the Lord, who is the God of the Church. 'Send My people away, and let them serve Me' means that they should leave those who belong to the spiritual Church, in order that these may worship the Lord their God. 'For this time I am sending all My plagues' means that it would be possible for the evil things yet to come to rush in on them all together. 'Onto your heart' means into what is inmost. 'Onto your servants, and onto your people' means into every single part. 'In order that you may know that there is none like Me in the whole earth' means that they would know from this that the Lord was the only God. 'For now I could stretch out My hand' means that all communication could be taken away. 'And strike you and your people with pestilence' means so that total devastation would be effected. 'And you would be cut off from the earth' means that thus there would be no communication any longer through things of the Church. 'But yet for this reason have I caused you to stand' means that nevertheless communication would continue, and states would run their orderly course. 'For you to see My power' means so that they may ascertain how great God's power is. 'And in order that My name may be declared in the whole earth' means that thus the Lord may be acknowledged, where the Church exists, as the only God. 'You go on exalting yourself against My people' means because he does not yet refrain from molesting those guided by truth and governed by good. 'By not sending them away' means and still does not leave. 'Behold, about this time tomorrow I am causing it to rain an extremely heavy hail' means falsities destroying all things of the Church among them. 'Of which there has not been the like in Egypt from the day it was founded even until now' means that no such destruction happens to any others in their natural mind.

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