Éxodo 9:8

La plaga de úlceras

8 Entonces el SEÑOR les dijo a Moisés y a Aarón: «Tomen de algún horno puñados de ceniza, y que la arroje Moisés al aire en presencia 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 En efecto, al día siguiente murió todo el ganado de los egipcios, pero del ganado de los israelitas no murió ni un solo animal.

7 Envió el faraón gente a ver los ganados de los israelitas, y se encontraron con que ni un solo animal había muerto. Sin embargo, el faraón endureció su corazón y no quiso dejar ir al pueblo.

8 Entonces el SEÑOR les dijo a Moisés y a Aarón: «Tomen de algún horno puñados de ceniza, y que la arroje Moisés al aire en presencia del faraón.

9 La ceniza se convertirá en polvo fino, y caerá sobre todo Egipto y abrirá úlceras en personas y animales en todo el país».

10 Moisés y Aarón tomaron ceniza de un horno y se plantaron ante el faraón. Allí Moisés la arrojó al aire, y se abrieron úlceras purulentas en personas y animales.