Exodus 9:1-11 ▼

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.

11 The magicians were not able to stand before Moses because of the boils, because the boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians.