8. Hashem hears the despair of the Jewish people:[1]
After many days, the king of Egypt died [i.e. was afflicted with leprosy] and the Jewish people groaned and cried due to the labor. Their scream ascended to G-d and He remembered the covenant he made with Avraham and Yitzchak and Yaakov. Hashem saw the Jewish people and Hashem knew [their suffering].
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Babies are slaughtered to provide Pharaoh with Jewish blood:[2] The doctors advised Pharaoh who was stricken with leprosy, that as a cure he should bathe in the blood of 150 Jewish babies each morning and 150 each evening. Pharaoh did as they instructed and slaughtered 300 babies each day. The babies were forcefully taken from their mothers’ chest and killed.
What happened to Pharaoh as a result of the leprosy?[3] He suffered from the illness for three years and then died. His son took over the monarchy. During the prime of his illness, he became like a carcass which gave such a foul smell that no one desired to be near him.
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[1] Shemos 2:23-25
[2] Meiam Loez Shemos Chapter p. 69 [new edition]
[3] Meiam Loez Shemos Chapter p. 71 [new edition]
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