² If you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them back, ³ the hand^(A) of the Lord will bring a terrible plague^(B) on your livestock in the field—on your horses, donkeys and camels and on your cattle, sheep and goats. ⁴ But the Lord will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and that of Egypt,^(C) so that no animal belonging to the Israelites will die.’”