English: Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi said: The boils that the Holy One, blessed be He, brought upon the Egyptians were moist on the outside and dry on the inside, as the verse says, “And it became a boil breaking out in blisters upon man and beast.”
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Type of Learning
Custom
What Is Learned
Chazal describe the Egyptian boils as moist outside and dry inside.