Exodus 8:18-20

Contemporary English Version

¹⁸ When the magicians tried to use their secret powers to do this,^[a] they failed, and gnats stayed on people and animals.

^19 (A) The magicians told the king,^[b] “God has done this.”

But, as the Lord had said, the king was too stubborn to listen.

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²⁰ The Lord said to Moses:

Early tomorrow morning, while the king^[c] is on his way to the river, go and say to him, “The Lord commands you to let his people go, so they can worship him.