Deuteronomy 28:27

The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors and scabs and itch from which you cannot be cured.

Berean Standard Bible

Study note

Setting — Yahweh speaks a covenant curse to Israel, positioned between warnings of exposed corpses and mental affliction. The words — The Hebrew שְׁחִין (shechin) means "boils," and חָרֶס (chares) denotes "scabies," paired with tumors to describe an incurable physical state. The thread — The plague mirrors the "festering boils" of Exodus 9:9 and the "tumors" that struck Ashdod in 1 Samuel 5:6, while Exodus 15:26 contrasts this judgment with the condition for divine protection. Why it lands — The text demands acknowledgment that covenant breach produces irreversible physical ruin, requiring the reader to treat the stated afflictions as concrete historical warnings rather than symbolic imagery.

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The Hebrew words

יַכְּכָ֨הya.ke./Khahhe will strike/ you יְהוָ֜הYah.wehYahweh בִּשְׁחִ֤יןbi/sh.Chinwith/ [the] boil[s] of מִצְרַ֙יִם֙mitz.Ra.yimEgypt וּבַטְּחֹרִ֔יםu./vo./'o.fa.limand/ with <the>/ tumors וּבַגָּרָ֖בu./va./ga.Ravand/ with <the>/ eczema וּבֶחָ֑רֶסu./ve./Cha.resand/ with <the>/ scabies אֲשֶׁ֥ר'a.Sherwhich לֹא־lo'-not תוּכַ֖לtu.Khalyou will be able לְהֵרָפֵֽא׃le./he.ra.Fe'to/ be healed

King James Version

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.

Cross-references

1 Samuel 5:6 Now the hand of the LORD was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity, ravaging them and afflicting them with tumors.
Exodus 15:26 saying, “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.”
Exodus 9:9 It will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and festering boils will break out on man and beast throughout the land.”
Leviticus 21:20 or who is a hunchback or dwarf, or who has an eye defect, a festering rash, scabs, or a crushed testicle.
Deuteronomy 28:35 The 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.
Exodus 9:11 The magicians could not stand before Moses, because the boils had broken out on them and on all the Egyptians.
Deuteronomy 28:60 He will afflict you again with all the diseases you dreaded in Egypt, and they will cling to you.
1 Samuel 5:9 But 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 Samuel 5:12 Those who did not die were afflicted with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.
Psalms 78:66 He beat back His foes; He put them to everlasting shame.