1. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh and say to him: This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.
2. But if you refuse to let them go and keep holding them,
3. then the Lord’s hand will bring a severe plague against your livestock in the field — the horses, donkeys, camels, herds, and flocks.
4. But the Lord will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that nothing of all that the Israelites own will die.”
5. And the Lord set a time, saying, “Tomorrow the Lord will do this thing in the land.”
6. The Lord did this the next day. All the Egyptian livestock died, but none among the Israelite livestock died.
7. Pharaoh sent messengers who saw that not a single one of the Israelite livestock was dead. But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he did not let the people go.
8. Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of furnace soot, and Moses is to throw it toward heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.
9. It will become fine dust over the entire land of Egypt. It will become festering boils on man and beast throughout the land of Egypt.”
10. So they took furnace soot and stood before Pharaoh. Moses threw it toward heaven, and it became festering boils on man and beast.