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.
11. The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians.
12. But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had predicted to Moses.
13. The Lord said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning, stand before Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: “Release my people so that they may serve me!
14. For this time I will send all my plagues on your very self and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.
15. For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with plague, and you would have been destroyed from the earth.
16. But for this purpose I have caused you to stand: to show you my strength, and so that my name may be declared in all the earth.
17. You are still exalting yourself against my people by not releasing them.
18. I am going to cause very severe hail to rain down about this time tomorrow, such hail as has never occurred in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.