Exodus 9:10 And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.

Exodus 9:10 So they took soot from a kiln, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses threw it toward the sky, and it became boils breaking out with sores on man and beast.

10. 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 [De 4:20; 1Ki 8:51; Jer 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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Brief Summary: The LORD destroys the cattle of the Egyptians but not of the Hebrews, The plague of boils and blains upon the Egyptians, The plague of hail and fire upon the people of Pharaoh but not on the people of Israel.

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1 The murrain of beasts
8 The plague of boils and blains
13 The message about the hail
22 The plague of hail upon the Egyptians
27 Pharaoh asks Moses to entreat the Lord
35 But yet Pharaoh is hardened

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the word of the LORD

Ancient People
God, Moses, Pharaoh, Aaron
Egyptians
children of Israel
Hebrews

Geography
Egypt
the land of Goshen

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