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the frogs shall leave you and your houses and your officials and your people; they shall be left only in the Nile."

And they gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.

And they did so; Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth, and gnats came on humans and animals alike; all the dust of the earth turned into gnats throughout the whole land of Egypt.

The magicians tried to produce gnats by their secret arts, but they could not. There were gnats on both humans and animals.

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Rise early in the morning and present yourself before Pharaoh, as he goes out to the water, and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord : Let my people go, so that they may worship me.

For if you will not let my people go, I will send swarms of flies on you, your officials, and your people, and into your houses; and the houses of the Egyptians shall be filled with swarms of flies; so also the land where they live.

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord , the God of the Hebrews: Let my people go, so that they may worship me.

So they took soot from the kiln, and stood before Pharaoh, and Moses threw it in the air, and it caused festering boils on humans and animals.

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning and present yourself before Pharaoh, and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord , the God of the Hebrews: Let my people go, so that they may worship me.

But the wheat and the spelt were not ruined, for they are late in coming up.)

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh, and said to him, "Thus says the Lord , the God of the Hebrews, ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, so that they may worship me.

They shall cover the surface of the land, so that no one will be able to see the land. They shall devour the last remnant left you after the hail, and they shall devour every tree of yours that grows in the field.

They shall fill your houses, and the houses of all your officials and of all the Egyptians—something that neither your parents nor your grandparents have seen, from the day they came on earth to this day.'" Then he turned and went out from Pharaoh.

No, never! Your men may go and worship the Lord , for that is what you are asking." And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.

They covered the surface of the whole land, so that the land was black; and they ate all the plants in the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left; nothing green was left, no tree, no plant in the field, in all the land of Egypt.

People could not see one another, and for three days they could not move from where they were; but all the Israelites had light where they lived.

They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.

They shall eat the lamb that same night; they shall eat it roasted over the fire with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

The Israelites had done as Moses told them; they had asked the Egyptians for jewelry of silver and gold, and for clothing,

and the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. And so they plundered the Egyptians.