18 But when the magicians tried to produce gnats by their secret arts, they could not.

Since the gnats were on people and animals everywhere,

18 The magicians tried by their secret arts to produce gnats, but they could not. So there were gnats on man and beast.

18 And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not: so there were lice upon man, and upon beast.

18 Pharaoh’s magicians tried to do the same thing with their secret arts, but this time they failed. And the gnats covered everyone, people and animals alike.

18 Using their tricks, the magicians tried to do the same thing, but they could not make the dust change into gnats. The gnats remained on the people and animals.

18 And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not: and there were lice upon man, and upon beast.

18 And the scribes did so with their sorceries, to bring forth gnats; but they could not. And the gnats were on man and on beast.

18 The magicians also tried to produce gnats using their magic spells, but they couldn’t do it. The gnats bit people and animals.

18 The magicians tried to produce gnats using their occult practices, but they could not. The gnats remained on man and beast.

18 The magicians tried to produce gnats by their secret arts, but they could not. There were gnats on both humans and animals.

18 And the magicians did so with their secret arts to bring out the gnats, but they were not able, and the gnats were on the humans and on the animals.

18 The magicians tried to produce gnats by doing their magic tricks. But they couldn’t. The gnats stayed on people and animals alike.

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