²If you refuse, I will punish your country by covering it with frogs. ³The Nile will be so full of frogs that they will leave it and go into your palace, your bedroom, your bed, the houses of your officials and your people, and even into your ovens and baking pans. ⁴They will jump up on you, your people, and all your officials.’ ”

⁵The Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron to hold out his stick over the rivers, the canals, and the pools, and make frogs come up and cover the land of Egypt.” ⁶So Aaron held it out over all the water, and the frogs came out and covered the land. ⁷But the magicians used magic, and they too made frogs come up on the land.

⁸The king called for Moses and Aaron and said, “Pray to the Lord to take away these frogs, and I will let your people go, so that they can offer sacrifices to the Lord.”

⁹Moses replied, “I will be glad to pray for you. Just set the time when I am to pray for you, your officers, and your people. Then you will be rid of the frogs, and there will be none left except in the Nile.”

¹⁰The king answered, “Pray for me tomorrow.”

Moses said, “I will do as you ask, and then you will know that there is no other god like the Lord, our God. ¹¹You, your officials, and your people will be rid of the frogs, and there will be none left except in the Nile.” ¹²Then Moses and Aaron left the king, and Moses prayed to the Lord to take away the frogs which he had brought on the king. ¹³The Lord did as Moses asked, and the frogs in the houses, the courtyards, and the fields died. ¹⁴The Egyptians piled them up in great heaps, until the land stank with them.

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