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Ex 9:8-10, burning ulcerous eruptions, miraculously caused by the ashes which Moses threw up among the Egyptians. If these ashes came from the brick-kilns where the Hebrews had toiled, the pains which the Egyptians suffered would naturally remind them of those which they had inflicted.
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Easton
occurs only in connection with the sixth plague of Egypt (Ex 9:9-10). In De 28:27,35, it is called "the botch of Egypt." It seems to have been the fearful disease of black leprosy, a kind of elephantiasis, producing burning ulcers.
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Fausets
aba' buoth. The sixth Egyptian plague, which followed after Moses' sprinkling of the furnace ashes toward heaven; "the botch of Egypt" (De 28:27,35), black leprosy, a kind of elephantiasis, producing burning ulcerous pustules on the skin. The magicians, whose scrupulous cleanliness is noticed by Herodotus, could not stand before Moses because of the boils (Ex 9:9-11).
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Morish
Inflamed ulcers on the body, as from boils, on the Egyptians and the magicians in the sixth plague. Ex 9:9,Ex 9:10.
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Smith
violent ulcerous inflammations, the sixth plague of Egypt,
and hence called in
De 28:27,35
the botch of Egypt. It seems to have been the black leprosy, a fearful kind of elephantiasis.