Exodus 8:18-20

Expanded Bible

¹⁸ Using their ·tricks [magic arts], the ·magicians [sorcerers] 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 [sorcerers] told ·the king [^LPharaoh] that the ·power [^Lfinger] of God had done this. But the ·king was stubborn [^Lheart of Pharaoh was hard] and refused to listen to them, just as the Lord had said.

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²⁰ The Lord told Moses, “Get up early in the morning, and meet the king of Egypt as he goes out to the ·river [^Lwater]. Tell him, ‘This is what the Lord says: Let my people go so they can ·worship [serve] me.