11. The frogs will leave you, your houses, your officers and your people. They will remain only in the Nile.”
12. Moses and Aaron left the king. Moses asked the Lord about the frogs he had sent to the king.
13. And the Lord did as Moses asked. The frogs died in the houses, in the yards and in the fields.
14. The Egyptians put them in piles. The whole country began to stink.
15. When the king saw that they were free of the frogs, he became stubborn again. He did not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had said.
16. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron to raise his walking stick and strike the dust on the ground. Then everywhere in Egypt the dust will change into gnats.”
17. They did this. Aaron raised the walking stick that was in his hand and struck the dust on the ground. Then everywhere in Egypt the dust changed into gnats. The gnats got on the people and animals.
18. Using their tricks, the magicians tried to do the same thing. But they could not make the dust change into gnats. The gnats remained on the people and animals.
19. So the magicians told the king that the power of God had done this. But the king was stubborn and refused to listen to them. This happened just as the Lord had said.