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.
The botch of Egypt, х shªchiyn (H7822)] - an inflamed ulceration. It seems to have been very prevalent in Egypt, and of an exceedingly malignant character, so that the magicians, when smitten with it, could not stand before Moses (Exodus 9:10-11). It is mentioned as one of the incipient symptoms of leprosy in the diagnosis of that disease contained in Leviticus 13:18-19. It is supposed in its most virulent type, to have been identical with elephantiasis-a loathsome, disfiguring, incurable disease (cf. Job 2:7). But that is mentioned, Deuteronomy 28:35; a troublesome eruption, marked by red pimples, to which, at the rising of the Nile, the Egyptians are subject.
Emerods - fistula or piles.
Scab - scurvy.
Itch - the disease commonly known by that name; but it is far more malignant in the East than is ever witnessed in our part of the world.