2 If you refuse to let them go and you continue to hold them back,
3 the Lord will send a very deadly disease on your livestock in the field: on horses, donkeys, camels, cattle, and flocks.
4 But the Lord will distinguish Israel’s livestock from Egypt’s livestock so that not one that belongs to the Israelites will die."
5 The Lord set a time and said, "Tomorrow the Lord will do this in the land."
6 And the next day the Lord did it. All of the Egyptian livestock died, but not one animal that belonged to the Israelites died.
7 Pharaoh asked around and found out that not one of Israel’s livestock had died. But Pharaoh was stubborn, and he wouldn’t let the people go.
8 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "Take handfuls of ashes from a furnace and have Moses throw it up in the air in front of Pharaoh.