7. But the magicians did the same thing by their occult practices and brought frogs up onto the land of Egypt.
8. Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Ask Yahweh to remove the frogs from me and my people. Then I will let the people go and they can sacrifice to Yahweh.”
9. Moses said to Pharaoh, “You make the choice rather than me. When should I ask on behalf of you, your officials, and your people, that the frogs be taken away from you and your houses, and remain only in the Nile?”
10. “Tomorrow,” he answered.Moses replied, “As you have said, so you may know there is no one like Yahweh our God,
11. the frogs will go away from you, your houses, your officials, and your people. The frogs will remain only in the Nile.”
12. After Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, Moses cried out to the Lord for help concerning the frogs that He had brought against Pharaoh.
13. The Lord did as Moses had said: the frogs in the houses, courtyards, and fields died.
14. They piled them in countless heaps, and there was a terrible odor in the land.
15. But when Pharaoh saw there was relief, he hardened his heart and would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.
16. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron: Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, and it will become gnats throughout the land of Egypt.”
17. And they did this. Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff, and when he struck the dust of the earth, gnats were on man and beast. All the dust of the earth became gnats throughout the land of Egypt.
18. The magicians tried to produce gnats using their occult practices, but they could not. The gnats remained on man and beast.
19. “This is the finger of God,” the magicians said to Pharaoh. But Pharaoh’s heart hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.
20. The Lord said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and present yourself to Pharaoh when you see him going out to the water. Tell him: This is what Yahweh says: Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.
21. But if you will not let My people go, then I will send swarms of flies against you, your officials, your people, and your houses. The Egyptians’ houses will swarm with flies, and so will the land where they live.
22. But on that day I will give special treatment to the land of Goshen, where My people are living; no flies will be there. This way you will know that I, Yahweh, am in the land.