Exodus 9:26
Good News Translation
The region of Goshen, where the Israelites lived, was the only place where there was no hail.

New Revised Standard Version
Only in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites were, there was no hail.

Contemporary English Version
Only Goshen, where the Israelites lived, was safe from the storm.

New American Bible
Only in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites were, was there no hail.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Only in the land of Gessen, where the children of Israel were, the hail fell not.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Only in the land of Gessen, where the children of Israel were, the hail fell not.

Exodus 8:22 And I will make the land of Gessen wonderful in that day, so that flies shall not be there: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth.

Exodus 9:4,6 And the Lord will make a wonderful difference between the possessions of Israel and the possessions of the Egyptians, that nothing at all shall die of those things that belong to the children of Israel. . . .

Exodus 10:23 No man saw his brother, nor moved himself out of the place where he was: but wheresoever the children of Israel dwelt, there was light.

Exodus 11:7 But with all the children of Israel there shall not a dog make the least noise, from man even to beast; that you may know how wonderful a difference the Lord maketh between the Egyptians and Israel.

Exodus 12:13 And the blood shall be unto you for a sign in the houses where you shall be; and I shall see the blood, and shall pass over you; and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I shall strike the land of Egypt.

Isaiah 32:18,19 And my people shall sit in the beauty of peace, and in the tabernacles of confidence, and in wealthy rest. . . .

Context
The Seventh Plague: Hail
25And the hail destroyed through all the land of Egypt all things that were in the fields, both man and beast: and the hail smote every herb of the field, and it broke every tree of the country. 26Only in the land of Gessen, where the children of Israel were, the hail fell not.27And Pharao sent and called Moses and Aaron, saying to them: I have sinned this time also, the Lord is just: I and my people, are wicked.…
Cross References
Exodus 8:22
And I will make the land of Gessen wonderful in that day, so that flies shall not be there: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth.

Exodus 9:4
And the Lord will make a wonderful difference between the possessions of Israel and the possessions of the Egyptians, that nothing at all shall die of those things that belong to the children of Israel.

Exodus 9:6
The Lord therefore did this thing the next day: and all the beasts of the Egyptians died, but of the beasts of the children of Israel there died not one.

Exodus 11:7
But with all the children of Israel there shall not a dog make the least noise, from man even to beast; that you may know how wonderful a difference the Lord maketh between the Egyptians and Israel.

Amos 4:7
I also have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon on city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon: and the piece whereupon I rained not, withered.

Exodus 9:25
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