Exodus 9:1-10 ▼

1 Then the LORD said to Moses, |Go to Pharaoh and tell him, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, |Release my people that they may serve me!

2 For if you refuse to release them and continue holding them,

3 then the hand of the LORD will surely bring a very terrible plague on your livestock in the field, on the horses, the donkeys, the camels, the herds, and the flocks.

4 But the Lord will distinguish between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, and nothing will die of all that the Israelites have.|'|

5 The LORD set an appointed time, saying, |Tomorrow the LORD will do this in the land.|

6 And the LORD did this on the next day; all the livestock of the Egyptians died, but of the Israelites' livestock not one died.

7 Pharaoh sent representatives to investigate, and indeed, not even one of the livestock of Israel had died. But Pharaoh's heart remained hard, and he did not release the people.

8 Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, |Take handfuls of soot from a furnace, and have Moses throw it into the air while Pharaoh is watching.

9 It will become fine dust over the whole land of Egypt and will cause boils to break out and fester on both people and animals in all the land of Egypt.|

10 So they took soot from a furnace and stood before Pharaoh, Moses threw it into the air, and it caused festering boils to break out on both people and animals.