Exodus 8:1–20

Frogs over the Land

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

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

³“The Nile will ^aswarm with frogs, which will come up and go 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 your people and all your servants.” ’ ”

⁵¹Then the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘^aStretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the ²streams and over the pools, and make frogs 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.

^7aThe ¹magicians did ²the same with their secret arts, ³making frogs come up on the land of Egypt.

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

⁹Moses said to Pharaoh, “¹The honor is yours to tell me: when shall I entreat for you and your servants and your people, that the frogs be ²destroyed from you and your houses, that they may be left 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 the Lord our God.

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

¹²Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and ^aMoses cried to the Lord concerning the frogs which He had ¹inflicted upon Pharaoh.

¹³The Lord 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.

¹⁵But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he ¹hardened his heart and ^adid not listen to them, as the Lord had said.

The Plague of Flies

¹⁶Then the Lord 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.’ ”

¹⁷They 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 ^agnats through all the land of Egypt.

¹⁸The ¹magicians tried with their secret arts to bring forth ²gnats, but ^athey could not; so there were gnats on man and beast.

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

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