Exodus 9:1-10 ▼

1 Then the LORD told Moses, |Go to Pharaoh and say to him, 'This is what the LORD God of the Hebrews says: |Let my people go so they may serve me.

2 But if you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them,

3 then the hand of the LORD will come with a very severe plague on your livestock in the fields, on horses, on donkeys, on camels, on cattle, and on sheep.

4 The LORD will distinguish between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of the Egyptians, so that nothing that belongs to the Israelis will die.|'|

5 The LORD set the time: |Tomorrow the LORD will do this thing in the land.|

6 The LORD did this thing the next day, and all the livestock of the Egyptians died. But not one of the livestock died that belonged to the Israelis.

7 Then Pharaoh inquired and discovered that not a single one of the livestock of Israel had died, but Pharaoh's heart was stubborn and he would not let the people go.

8 Then the LORD told Moses and Aaron, |Take handfuls of soot from a kiln, and let Moses throw it into the air in front of Pharaoh.

9 The soot will become dust over the entire land of Egypt, and it will become boils erupting into sores on people and animals throughout the land of Egypt.|

10 So they took soot from the kiln and stood before Pharaoh. Then Moses threw it into the air, and it became boils producing running sores on people and animals.