Passover Plagues--Day 6

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The Plague of Boils (Exodus 9:8-12)
“Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of soot from a furnace and have Moses toss it into the air in the presence of Pharaoh. It will become fine dust over the whole land of Egypt, and festering boils will break out on people and animals throughout the land.”

So they took soot from a furnace and stood before Pharaoh. Moses tossed it into the air, and festering boils broke out on people and animals. The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils that were on them and on all the Egyptians. But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart and he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said to Moses.

Now, before any of you go and call Child Protective Services, we do not give our children boils or harm them in any way. The best way that I have been able to describe boils to the children is to tell them that they are really hurtful sores or “oueys”. Because of this description, day six is usually referred to as the “day of boo-boos“.

Even though the Egyptians were suffering the worst of the plagues to date. This one is another one of my favorites. First we get some soot from a friend that has a wood burning fireplace. Then we take the ashes outside and toss the it in the air. To represent the actual boils, we cover ourselves literally with band-aids. We have bandages around our heads. We have wraps around our hands and fingers with gauze. We have even sometimes put some band-aids covering our mouths (but those don’t last long). We suffer through eating while not being about to use all of our appendages. By the end of the night we suffer through the agonizing pain of taking all the sticky bandages off.

But we have no idea what excruciating pain Pharaoh and his people were enduring. The only thing we do know is that even physical torture was not enough for him to get the message and listen to Moses. He still chose to keep a hard heart and keep the slaves form leaving.