8 So the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Take for yourselves handfuls of ashes from a furnace, and let Moses scatter it toward the heavens in the sight of Pharaoh.
9 And it will become fine dust in all the land of Egypt, and it will cause aboils that break out in sores on man and beast throughout all the land of Egypt.”
10 Then they took ashes from the furnace and stood before Pharaoh, and Moses scattered them toward heaven. And they caused aboils that break out in sores on man and beast.
11 And the amagicians could not stand before Moses because of the bboils, for the boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians.
12 But the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh; and he adid not heed them, just bas the Lord had spoken to Moses.
The Seventh Plague: Hail
13 Then the Lord said to Moses, a“Rise early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh, and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord God of the Hebrews: “Let My people go, that they may bserve Me,
Moses took ashes from the furnace—Hebrew, "brick-kiln." The magicians, being sufferers in their own persons, could do nothing, though they had been called; and as the brick-kiln was one of the principal instruments of oppression to the Israelites [Deuteronomy 4:20; I Kings 8:51; Jeremiah 11:4], it was now converted into a means of chastisement to the Egyptians, who were made to read their sin in their punishment.
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