2. You might refuse to let them go and continue to hold them.
3. Then the Lord will punish you. He will send a terrible disease on all your farm animals. He will cause all of your horses, donkeys, camels, cattle and sheep to become sick.
4. But the Lord will treat Israel’s animals differently from the animals of Egypt. None of the animals that belong to the Israelites will die.
5. The Lord has set tomorrow as the time he will do this in the land.’”
6. The next day the Lord did as he promised. All the farm animals in Egypt died. But none of the animals belonging to Israelites died.
7. The king sent people to see what had happened to the animals of Israel. They found that not one of them had died. But the king was still stubborn. He did not let the people go.
8. The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Fill your hands with the ashes from a furnace. Moses, throw the ashes into the air in front of the king of Egypt.
9. The ashes will spread like dust through all the land of Egypt. The dust will cause boils to break out and become sores on the skin. These sores will be on people and animals everywhere in the land.”
10. So Moses and Aaron took ashes from a furnace. Then they went and stood before the king. Moses threw ashes into the air. It caused boils to break out and become sores on people and animals.
11. The magicians could not stand before Moses. This was because all the Egyptians had boils, even the magicians.
12. But the Lord made the king stubborn. So he refused to listen to Moses and Aaron. This happened just as the Lord had said.