Éxodo 9:8

8 Entonces el SEÑOR dijo a Moisés y a Aarón: Tomad puñados de hollín de un horno, y que Moisés lo esparza hacia el cielo en presencia de Faraón;

Éxodo 9:8 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 9:8

And the Lord said unto Moses and unto Aaron
This very probably was the day following, on the third day of the month Abib, about the eighteenth of March, that orders were given to bring on the following plague: take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace;
either in which the bricks were burnt, or rather in which food was boiled, since it can scarcely he thought there should be brickkiln furnaces so near Pharaoh's court; though perhaps some reference may be had to them, and to the labour of the children Israel at them, and as a just retaliation for their oppression of them in that way. These ashes were such as were blown off the coals, and though fresh, yet not so hot but that they could take and hold them in their hands: and let Moses sprinkle it towards the heaven, in the sight of Pharaoh;
this was to be done before Pharaoh, that he might be an eyewitness of the miracle, he himself seeing with his own eyes that nothing else were cast up into the air but a few light ashes; and this was to be done towards heaven, to show that the plague or judgment came down from heaven, from the God of heaven, whose wrath was now revealed from thence; and Moses he was to do this; he alone, as Philo ^F26 thinks, or rather both he and Aaron, since they were both spoken to, and both filled their hands with ashes; it is most likely that both cast them up into the air, though Moses, being the principal person, is only mentioned.

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 De Vita Mosis, l. 1. p. 622.

Éxodo 9:8 In-Context

6 Y el SEÑOR hizo esto al día siguiente, y perecieron todos los ganados de Egipto; pero de los ganados de los hijos de Israel, ni un solo animal murió.

7 Y Faraón envió a ver, y he aquí, ni un solo animal de los ganados de Israel había perecido. Pero el corazón de Faraón se endureció y no dejó ir al pueblo.

8 Entonces el SEÑOR dijo a Moisés y a Aarón: Tomad puñados de hollín de un horno, y que Moisés lo esparza hacia el cielo en presencia de Faraón;

9 y se convertirá en polvo fino sobre toda la tierra de Egipto, y producirá furúnculos que resultarán en úlceras en los hombres y en los animales, por toda la tierra de Egipto.

10 Tomaron, pues, hollín de un horno, y se presentaron delante de Faraón, y Moisés lo arrojó hacia el cielo, y produjo furúnculos que resultaron en úlceras en los hombres y en los animales.