Exodus 8:1–20

The Plague of Frogs

¹¹Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Come to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “^aLet My people go, that they may serve Me.

²“But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I ¹will smite your whole territory with frogs.

³“And the Nile will ^aswarm with frogs, and they will go up and come into your house and into your bedroom and on your bed and into the houses of your servants and on your people and into your ovens and into your kneading bowls.

⁴“So the frogs will come up on you and on your people and on all your servants.” ’ ”

⁵¹Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘^aStretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the ²streams and over the pools, and cause the frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.’”

⁶So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the ^1afrogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.

^7aAnd the ¹magicians did ²the same with their secret arts; they caused the frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.

⁸Then Pharaoh ^acalled for Moses and Aaron and said, “^bEntreat Yahweh that He may cause the frogs to depart from me and from my people; and ^cI will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to Yahweh.”

⁹And Moses said to Pharaoh, “¹May the honor be yours to tell me: when shall I entreat for you and for your servants and for your people, that the frogs be cut off from you and your houses, that they may remain only in the Nile?”

¹⁰Then he said, “Tomorrow.” So he said, “May it be according to your word, that you may know that there is ^ano one like Yahweh our God.

¹¹“And the ^afrogs will depart from you and your houses and your servants and your people; they will remain only in the Nile.”

¹²Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and ^aMoses cried out to Yahweh concerning the frogs which He had set upon Pharaoh.

¹³So Yahweh did according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died out of the houses, the courts, and the fields.

¹⁴So they piled them in heaps, and the land ¹became foul.

¹⁵Then Pharaoh saw that there was relief, and he ¹hardened his heart with firmness and ^adid not listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

The Plague of Gnats

¹⁶Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, that it may become ¹gnats through all the land of Egypt.’”

¹⁷And they did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth, and there were ¹gnats on man and beast. All the dust of the earth became ^2agnats through all the land of Egypt.

¹⁸Then ¹the magicians did the same with their secret arts in order to bring forth ²gnats, but ^athey could not; so there were ³gnats on man and beast.

¹⁹And the ¹magicians said to Pharaoh, “^aThis is the finger of God.” But Pharaoh’s heart was ²hardened with strength, and he did not listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

The Plague of Flies

²⁰And Yahweh said to Moses, “^aRise early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh ¹as ^bhe comes out to the water, and you shall say to him, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “^cLet My people go, that they may serve Me.