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    Exodus 8

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    The frogs are already everywhere, and the magicians respond by making more.

    Frogs, and a most peculiar answer to themvv. 1–15

    The LORD sends Moses to Pharaoh with the same demand: let the people go to worship. Refusal brings frogs into the Nile, the palace, the bedrooms, the houses, the ovens, and the kneading bowls. Aaron stretches out his staff, and the frogs cover Egypt; then the magicians do the same thing by their magic arts, which is a curious remedy for an excess of frogs. Pharaoh summons Moses and Aaron and asks for prayer. Moses gives him the honour of choosing when relief shall come, and Pharaoh says, “Tomorrow.” The frogs depart everywhere but the Nile, then die in houses, courtyards, and fields, where they are piled into countless heaps with a terrible stench. Relief arrives; Pharaoh’s heart hardens.

    Gnats and the finger of Godvv. 16–19

    Aaron strikes the dust, and the dust turns into gnats throughout Egypt, upon man and beast. The magicians try to produce gnats as well, but cannot. They recognise what has happened as “the finger of God”; Pharaoh, having received even this agreement from his own magicians, will not listen.

    Flies, a distinction, and another refusalvv. 20–32

    The LORD sends Moses to meet Pharaoh at the water and announces swarms of flies, but gives Goshen special treatment: no flies there. Egypt is filled with them, and the land is ruined. Pharaoh offers to let the people sacrifice within Egypt; Moses says the Egyptians would find the sacrifices detestable and might stone them, so a three-day journey into the wilderness is required. Pharaoh agrees, provided they do not go very far, and asks for prayer. Moses prays, the flies vanish without one remaining, and Pharaoh hardens his heart again.

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    1. Exod 8:1Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and tell him that this is what the LORD says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.

    2. Exod 8:2But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs.

    3. Exod 8:3The Nile will teem with frogs, and they will come into your palace and up to your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and your people, and into your ovens and kneading bowls.

    4. Exod 8:4The frogs will come up on you and your people and all your officials.’”

    5. Exod 8:5And the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers and canals and ponds, and cause the frogs to come up onto the land of Egypt.’”

    6. Exod 8:6So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.

    7. Exod 8:7But the magicians did the same thing by their magic arts, and they also brought frogs up onto the land of Egypt.

    8. Exod 8:8Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Pray to the LORD to take the frogs away from me and my people. Then I will let your people go, that they may sacrifice to the LORD.”

    9. Exod 8:9Moses said to Pharaoh, “You may have the honor over me. When shall I pray for you and your officials and your people that the frogs (except for those in the Nile) may be taken away from you and your houses?”

    10. Exod 8:10“Tomorrow,” Pharaoh answered. “May it be as you say,” Moses replied, “so that you may know that there is no one like the LORD our God.

    11. Exod 8:11The frogs will depart from you and your houses and your officials and your people; they will remain only in the Nile.”

    12. Exod 8:12After Moses and Aaron had left Pharaoh, Moses cried out to the LORD for help with the frogs that He had brought against Pharaoh.

    13. Exod 8:13And the LORD did as Moses requested, and the frogs in the houses, the courtyards, and the fields died.

    14. Exod 8:14They were piled into countless heaps, and there was a terrible stench in the land.

    15. Exod 8:15When Pharaoh saw that there was relief, however, he hardened his heart and would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.

    16. Exod 8:16Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, that it may turn into swarms of gnats throughout the land of Egypt.’”

    17. Exod 8:17This they did, and when Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth, gnats came upon man and beast. All the dust of the earth turned into gnats throughout the land of Egypt.

    18. Exod 8:18The magicians tried to produce gnats using their magic arts, but they could not. And the gnats remained on man and beast.

    19. Exod 8:19“This is the finger of God,” the magicians said to Pharaoh. But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.

    20. Exod 8:20Then the LORD said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning, and when Pharaoh goes out to the water, stand before him and tell him that this is what the LORD says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.

    21. Exod 8:21But if you will not let My people go, I will send swarms of flies upon you and your officials and your people and your houses. The houses of the Egyptians and even the ground where they stand will be full of flies.

    22. Exod 8:22But on that day I will give special treatment to the land of Goshen, where My people live; no swarms of flies will be found there. In this way you will know that I, the LORD, am in the land.

    23. Exod 8:23I will make a distinction between My people and your people. This sign will take place tomorrow.’”

    24. Exod 8:24And the LORD did so. Thick swarms of flies poured into Pharaoh’s palace and into the houses of his officials. Throughout Egypt the land was ruined by swarms of flies.

    25. Exod 8:25Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God within this land.”

    26. Exod 8:26But Moses replied, “It would not be right to do that, because the sacrifices we offer to the LORD our God would be detestable to the Egyptians. If we offer sacrifices that are detestable before the Egyptians, will they not stone us?

    27. Exod 8:27We must make a three-day journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as He commands us.”

    28. Exod 8:28Pharaoh answered, “I will let you go and sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness, but you must not go very far. Now pray for me.”

    29. Exod 8:29“As soon as I leave you,” Moses said, “I will pray to the LORD, so that tomorrow the swarms of flies will depart from Pharaoh and his officials and his people. But Pharaoh must not act deceitfully again by refusing to let the people go and sacrifice to the LORD.”

    30. Exod 8:30Then Moses left Pharaoh and prayed to the LORD,

    31. Exod 8:31and the LORD did as Moses requested. He removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh and his officials and his people; not one fly remained.

    32. Exod 8:32But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time as well, and he would not let the people go.

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    • 19Luke 11:20But if I drive out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
    • 22Exodus 9:4But the LORD will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that no animal belonging to the Israelites will die.’”
    • 22Malachi 3:18So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”
    • 22Exodus 10:23No one could see anyone else, and for three days no one left his place. Yet all the Israelites had light in their dwellings.
    • 28Exodus 8:8Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Pray to the LORD to take the frogs away from me and my people. Then I will let your people go, that they may sacrifice to the LORD.”
    • 6Psalms 105:30Their land teemed with frogs, even in their royal chambers.
    • 6Psalms 78:45He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.
    • 8Exodus 10:17Now please forgive my sin once more and appeal to the LORD your God, that He may remove this death from me.”
    • 101 Chronicles 17:20O LORD, there is none like You, and there is no God but You, according to everything we have heard with our own ears.
    • 102 Samuel 7:22How great You are, O Lord GOD! For there is none like You, and there is no God but You, according to everything we have heard with our own ears.
    • 10Isaiah 46:9Remember what happened long ago, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me.
    • 10Psalms 86:8O Lord, there is none like You among the gods, nor any works like Yours.
    • 12James 5:16–18Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.
    • 15Isaiah 26:10Though grace is shown to the wicked man, he does not learn righteousness. In the land of righteousness he acts unjustly and fails to see the majesty of the LORD.
    • 15Ecclesiastes 8:11When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.
    • 19Psalms 8:3When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—

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