²If you refuse, I will punish Egypt with frogs. ³The Nile River will be filled with frogs. They will come up into your palace, into your bedroom, on your bed, into the houses of your officers, and onto your people. They will come into your ovens and into your baking pans. ⁴The frogs will jump all over you, your people, and your officers.’ ”

⁵Then the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron to hold his walking stick in his hand over the rivers, canals, and ponds. Make frogs come up out of the water onto the land of Egypt.”

⁶So Aaron held his hand over all the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up out of the water and covered the land of Egypt. ⁷The magicians used their tricks to do the same thing, so even more frogs came up onto the land of Egypt.

⁸The king called for Moses and Aaron and said, “Pray to the Lord to take the frogs away from me and my people. I will let your people go to offer sacrifices to the Lord.”

⁹Moses said to the king, “Please set the time when I should pray for you, your people, and your officers. Then the frogs will leave you and your houses and will remain only in the Nile.”

¹⁰The king answered, “Tomorrow.”

Moses said, “What you want will happen. By this you will know that there is no one like the Lord our God. ¹¹The frogs will leave you, your houses, your officers, and your people. They will remain only in the Nile.”

¹²After Moses and Aaron left the king, Moses asked the Lord about the frogs he had sent to the king. ¹³And the Lord did as Moses asked. The frogs died in the houses, in the yards, and in the fields. ¹⁴The Egyptians put them in piles, and the whole country began to stink.

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