2. If you refuse, then I will punish Egypt with frogs.
3. The Nile River will be filled with frogs. They will come from the river and enter your palace. They will be in your bedroom and your bed. The frogs will enter the houses of your officers and your people. They will enter your ovens and your baking pans.
4. The frogs will jump up all over you, your people and your officers.’”
5. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron to hold his walking stick in his hand over the rivers, canals and ponds. Make frogs come up out of the water onto the land of Egypt.”
6. So Aaron held his hand over all the waters of Egypt. The frogs came up out of the water and covered the land of Egypt.
7. The magicians used their tricks to do the same thing. So even more frogs came up onto the land of Egypt.
8. So the king called for Moses and Aaron. He said, “Pray to the Lord to take the frogs away from me and my people. I will let your people go to offer sacrifices to the Lord.”
9. Moses said to the king, “Please set the time that I should pray for you, your people and your officers. Then the frogs will leave you and your houses. They will remain only in the Nile.”
10. The king answered, “Tomorrow.”Moses said, “What you want will happen. By this you will know that there is no one like the Lord our God.
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.
20. The Lord told Moses, “Get up early in the morning. Meet the king of Egypt as he goes out to the river. Tell him, ‘This is what the Lord says: Let my people go so they can worship me.
21. If you don’t let them go, I will send swarms of flies. I will send them into your houses. The flies will be on you, your officers and your people. The houses of Egypt will be full of flies. And they will be all over the ground, too.