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Then the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the streams and canals, over the pools [among the reeds], and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.’” So Aaron stretched out his hand [with his staff] over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt. But the magicians (soothsayer-priests) did the same thing with their secret arts and enchantments, and [a]brought up [more] frogs on the land of Egypt.

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  1. Exodus 8:7 If the magicians had possessed true power they would have halted the plagues, not exacerbated them.

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