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Exodus 8:1-13 Modern English Version (MEV)

1. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord: Let My people go, so that they may serve Me.

2. But if you refuse to let them go, then I will plague all your borders with frogs.

3. And the river will swarm with frogs, which shall go up and come into your house, and into your bedchamber, and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants, and on your people, and into your ovens, and into your kneading troughs.

4. So the frogs shall come upon you, upon your people, and upon all your servants.’ ”

5. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch forth your hand with your rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.’ ”

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

7. The ­magicians did the same with their secret arts and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.

8. Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, “Entreat the Lord, that He may take away the frogs from me, and from my people, and I will let the people go, so that they may sacrifice to the Lord.”

9. Moses said to Pharaoh, “Glory yourself over me: When shall I entreat for you, your servants, and your people, to destroy the frogs from you and your houses, that they may remain in the river only?”

10. And he said, “Tomorrow.”Then he said, “Be it according to your word, in order that you may know that there is no one like the Lord our God.

11. The frogs shall depart from you, and from your houses, from your servants, and from your people. They shall remain in the river only.”

12. Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried out to the Lord concerning the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh.

13. Then the Lord did according to the word of Moses. And the frogs died out of the houses, the villages, and the fields.

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