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But when Pharaoh did not even then yield to the will of God, but,
while he gave leave to the husbands to take their wives with them, yet
insisted that the children should be left behind, God presently resolved
to punish his wickedness with several sorts of calamities, and those worse
than the foregoing, which yet had so generally afflicted them; for their
bodies had terrible boils, breaking forth with blains, while they were
already inwardly consumed; and a great part of the Egyptians perished in
this manner. But when the king was not brought to reason by this plague,
hail was sent down from heaven; and such hail it was, as the climate
of Egypt had never suffered before, nor was it like to that which falls
in other climates in winter time, 1
but was larger than that which falls in the middle of spring to those that
dwell in the northern and north-western regions. This hail broke down their
boughs laden with fruit. After this a tribe of locusts consumed the seed
which was not hurt by the hail; so that to the Egyptians all hopes of the
future fruits of the ground were entirely lost.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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