With Pharaoh's heart hardened after the previous plague of the swarms, God commanded Moses to tell Pharaoh that since he was still holding onto the people of God that all of the Egyptian cattle would die. When we think of cattle, we mostly think of food. The Egyptians would also be losing their means of transportation, their means of labor and their means of war. Before the invention of the steam and then the internal combustion engine, if you didn't want to use relatively weak humans, horses, donkeys, camels and oxen were the sources of power. As we see the effects of the coronavirus, where out of fear and government intervention, a small part of our ability to move goods is failing. In Egypt, with this plague, in one day, it came to a standstill. This happened to all of the Egyptians, but God spared the Israelites. The next plague is the plague of boils. Moses took ash from a furnace, probably a purifying furnace like in Daniel 3, cast it into the air and it became fine dust that filled the land of Egypt. In the land, when it would hit man or animal, they would react to it like they were burned with something hot and their skin would blister up. The plague is that everyone and the animals having second degree burns over all of their bodies which then became infected. It was sufficiently painful that the magicians were unable to stand before Moses. But even with this foretaste of hell, God hardened the heart of Pharaoh so he would not let the people go. God appointed that they would let the people go after the first born sons were killed. As we go through these plagues it is important for us to consider how severe they were. Egypt was already destroyed after the frogs, b
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