The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors and scabs and itch from which you cannot be cured.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with the tumors, with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed.
- KJV The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
- NKJV The Lord will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors, with the scab, and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed.
- NASB “The Lord will strike you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, the festering rash, and with scabies, from which you cannot be healed.
- NLT “The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, scurvy, and the itch, from which you cannot be cured.
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Quick answer
God will strike Israel with incurable diseases like those of Egypt.
Overview
The very plagues God used against Egypt will now afflict a disobedient Israel. This is a tragic reversal, for the people God redeemed from Egypt now suffer Egypt's judgments. It warns that covenant privilege, abused, offers no immunity from God's hand.
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- 1 Sam 5:6Now the hand of the LORD was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity, ravaging them and afflicting them with tumors.
- Exod 9:9It will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and festering boils will break out on man and beast throughout the land.”
- Exod 15:26saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”
- Lev 21:20or who is a hunchback or dwarf, or who has an eye defect, a festering rash, scabs, or a crushed testicle.
- Deut 28:35The LORD will afflict you with painful, incurable boils on your knees and thighs, from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
- Isa 3:17the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.”
- Ps 78:66He beat back His foes; He put them to everlasting shame.
- Exod 9:11The magicians could not stand before Moses, because the boils had broken out on them and on all the Egyptians.
- Deut 28:60–61He will afflict you again with all the diseases you dreaded in Egypt, and they will cling to you.
- 1 Sam 5:9But after they had moved the ark to Gath, the LORD’s hand was also against that city, throwing it into great confusion and afflicting the men of the city, both young and old, with an outbreak of tumors.
- 1 Sam 5:12Those who did not die were afflicted with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.
- Lev 13:2–8“When someone has a swelling or rash or bright spot on his skin that could become an infectious skin disease, he must be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons who is a priest.
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