A plague of boils came next. This is a painful skin disease. Plague number seven was hail, hard rocks of ice falling from the sky. The hail flattened all their crops. Next came swarms of locusts.
Locusts are a type of grasshopper that ate up all the green plants.
Next came darkness. It was dark in the middle of the day everywhere in Egypt except in the land of Goshen, where the Children of Israel lived. The last plague was the most terrible of all. All except the first-born of the Children of Israel, that is. God told them to paint some lamb's blood on their doors, and if they did, they would be safe.