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Blains. Violent ulcerous inflammations, the sixth plague of Egypt, Exodus 9:9-10, and hence, called in Deuteronomy 28:27; Deuteronomy 28:35, "the botch of Egypt." It seems to have been the black leprosy, a fearful kind of elephantiasis.

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Smith, William, Dr. Entry for 'Blains'. Smith's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​sbd/​b/blains.html. 1901.
 
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