Éxodo 9:8

8 Plaga de llagas purulentas
Entonces el Señor
les dijo a Moisés y a Aarón: «Tomen puñados de hollín de un horno de ladrillos y que Moisés lance el hollín al aire a la vista del 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 Así que el Señor
hizo tal como había dicho. A la mañana siguiente, todos los animales de los egipcios murieron, pero los israelitas no perdieron ni un solo animal.

7 Entonces el faraón envió a sus funcionarios a investigar, ¡y comprobaron que los israelitas no habían perdido ni uno de sus animales! Pero aun así, el corazón del faraón siguió obstinado,
y una vez más se negó a dejar salir al pueblo.

8 Plaga de llagas purulentas
Entonces el Señor
les dijo a Moisés y a Aarón: «Tomen puñados de hollín de un horno de ladrillos y que Moisés lance el hollín al aire a la vista del faraón.

9 La ceniza se esparcirá como polvo fino sobre toda la tierra de Egipto y provocará llagas purulentas en las personas y en los animales por todo el territorio».

10 Entonces Moisés y Aarón tomaron hollín de un horno de ladrillos y se pararon ante el faraón. Mientras él observaba, Moisés lanzó la ceniza al aire, y brotaron llagas purulentas tanto en las personas como en los animales.