11. The frogs will leave you, your homes, your officials, and your people. The only frogs left will be those in the Nile.”
12. After Moses and Aaron left Pharaoh, Moses prayed to the Lord about the frogs he had brought on Pharaoh.
13. The Lord did what Moses asked. The frogs died in the houses, in the yards, and in the fields.
14. They were piled into countless heaps, and the land began to stink because of them.
15. When Pharaoh saw that the plague was over, he became stubborn and would not listen to Moses and Aaron, as the Lord had predicted.
16. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Hold out your staff and strike the dust on the ground. All over Egypt the dust will turn into gnats.’ ”
17. When Moses told him, Aaron held out the staff in his hand and struck the dust on the ground. It turned into gnats that bit people and animals. All the dust on the ground everywhere in Egypt turned into gnats.
18. The magicians also tried to produce gnats using their magic spells, but they couldn’t do it. The gnats bit people and animals.
19. So the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is the hand of God!”Yet, Pharaoh continued to be stubborn and would not listen to Moses and Aaron, as the Lord had predicted.
20. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Early in the morning, stand in Pharaoh’s way when he’s going to the Nile. Say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: Let my people go to worship me.