8:1 ①Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the LORD says: “Let My people go, so that they may serve Me.
▷ ①Ch 7:26 in Heb
8:2 But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I am going to strike your entire territory with frogs.
8:3 The Nile will swarm 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 kneading bowls.
8:4 So the frogs will come up on you, your people, and on all your servants.” ’ ”
8:5 ①Then the LORD said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Extend 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.’ ”
▷ ①Ch 8:1 in Heb ②Or canals
8:6 So Aaron extended his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the ①frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.
▷ ①Lit frog
8:7 However, the soothsayer priests did the same with their secret arts, ①making frogs come up on the land of Egypt.
▷ ①Lit and made
8:8 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said, “Plead with the LORD ①to remove the frogs from me and from my people; and I will let the people go, so that they may sacrifice to the LORD.”
▷ ①Lit that He remove
8:9 And Moses said to Pharaoh, “ ①The honor is yours to tell me: when shall I plead for you and your servants and your people, ②that the frogs be destroyed from you and your houses, that they be left only in the Nile?”
▷ ①Lit Glory over me ②Lit cut off the frogs from
8:10 Then he said, “Tomorrow.” So he said, “May it be according to your word, so that you may know that there is no one like the LORD our God.
8:11 The frogs will depart from you and your houses, and from your servants and your people; they will be left only in the Nile.”
8:12 Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried out to the LORD concerning the frogs which He had ①inflicted upon Pharaoh.
▷ ①Lit placed
8:13 The LORD did according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died out of the houses, the courtyards, and the fields.
8:14 So they piled them in heaps, and the land stank.
8:15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he ①hardened his heart and did not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.
▷ ①Lit made heavy
8:16 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Extend your staff and strike the dust of the earth, so that it may turn into ①gnats through all the land of Egypt.’ ”
▷ ①Or lice
8:17 They did so; and Aaron extended his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth, and there were ①gnats on every ②person and animal. All the dust of the earth turned into ③gnats through all the land of Egypt.
▷ ①Or lice ②I.e., Egyptians and their livestock ③Or lice
8:18 The soothsayer priests tried with their secret arts to produce ①gnats, but they could not; so there were ②gnats on every person and animal.
▷ ①Or lice ②Or lice
8:19 Then the soothsayer priests said to Pharaoh, “This is the finger of God.” But Pharaoh’s heart was ①hardened, and he did not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.
▷ ①Lit strong
8:20 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Rise early in the morning and present yourself before Pharaoh, ①as he comes out to the water; and say to him, ‘This is what the LORD says: “Let My people go, so that they may serve Me.
▷ ①Lit behold
8:21 For if you are not going to let My people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you and on your servants and on your people, and into your houses; and the houses of the Egyptians will be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground on which they live.
8:22 But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where My people are ①living, so that no swarms of flies will be there, in order that you may know that ②I, the LORD, am in the midst of the land.
▷ ①Lit standing ②Or I am the LORD in the midst of the earth
8:23 I will ①put a division between My people and your people. Tomorrow this sign will occur.” ’ ”
▷ ①Lit set a ransom
8:24 Then the LORD did so. And ①thick swarms of flies entered the house of Pharaoh and the houses of his servants, and the land was laid waste because of the swarms of flies in all the land of Egypt.
▷ ①Lit heavy
8:25 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God within the land.”
8:26 But Moses said, “It is not permissible for us to do so, because we will sacrifice to the LORD our God ①that which is an abomination to the Egyptians. If we sacrifice ②that which is an abomination to the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not stone us?
▷ ①Lit the abomination of Egypt ②Lit the abomination of Egypt
8:27 We must go a three days’ journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God, just as He ①commands us.”
▷ ①Lit says to us
8:28 Pharaoh said, “I will let you go, so that you may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only you shall not go very far away. Plead for me.”
8:29 Then Moses said, “Behold, I am going to leave you, and I will plead with the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people tomorrow; only do not let Pharaoh deal deceitfully again in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.”
8:30 So Moses left Pharaoh and pleaded with the LORD.
8:31 The LORD did ①as Moses asked, and removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; not one remained.
▷ ①Lit according to the word of Moses
8:32 But Pharaoh ①hardened his heart this time also, and he did not let the people go.
▷ ①Lit made heavy