7. Pharaoh investigated and found that not even one of the animals of the Israelites had died. Yet his heart was unyielding and he would not let the people go.
8. Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ‘Take handfuls of soot from a furnace and let Moses toss it into the air in the presence of Pharaoh.
9. It will become fine dust over the whole land of Egypt, and festering boils will break out on people and animals throughout the land.’
10. So they took soot from a furnace and stood before Pharaoh. Moses tossed it into the air, and festering boils broke out on people and animals.
11. The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils that were on them and on all the Egyptians.
12. But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart and he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had said to Moses.
13. Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Get up early in the morning, confront Pharaoh and say to him, “This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: let my people go, so that they may worship me,
14. or this time I will send the full force of my plagues against you and against your officials and your people, so 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 a plague that would have wiped you off the earth.