When Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, the Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightning flashed down to the ground. So the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt. The combination of thunder, hail, and lightning is the full meteorological arsenal. Thunder in Hebrew is literally the voice of God — qol Elohim — a phrase used in Psalm 29 to describe the thunderstorm as God's voice moving through the creation. The hailstorm is God speaking at volume over Egypt. John 12:29 records that when God spoke from heaven at Jesus' baptism, some heard it as thunder. The voice of God that Egypt has refused to hear in the words of Moses is now being heard in the thunder over their fields. God uses every register available to make Himself known — the still small voice and the thunder are both His voice, and He uses both in the Exodus.

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