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"The Nile will swarm with frogs, which will come up and go into your house and into your bedroom* and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and on your people, and into your ovens and into your kneadingbowls.
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Then the LORDsaid to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Stretch out your hand with your staffover the rivers, over the streams and over the pools, and make frogscome up on the land of Egypt.' "
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Then Pharaohcalled for Moses and Aaron and said, "Entreat the LORD that He remove the frogs from me and from my people; and I will let the peoplego, that they may sacrifice to the LORD."
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Mosessaid to Pharaoh, "The honor is yours to tell me: when shall I entreat for you and your servants and your people, that the frogs be destroyed from you and your houses, that they may be leftonly in the Nile?"
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Then the LORDsaid to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, that it may becomegnats through all the land of Egypt.' "
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They didso; and Aaronstretched out his hand with his staff, and struck the dust of the earth, and there were gnats on man and beast. All the dust of the earthbecamegnats through all the land of Egypt.
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Then the magicianssaid to Pharaoh, "This is the finger of God." But Pharaoh'sheart was hardened, and he did not listen to them, as the LORD had said.
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Now the LORDsaid to Moses, "Riseearly in the morning and presentyourselfbeforePharaoh, as he comes out to the water, and say to him, 'Thussays the LORD, "Let My peoplego, that they may serve Me.
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"For if you do not let My peoplego, behold, I will sendswarms of insects on you and on your servants and on your people and into your houses; and the houses of the Egyptians will be full of swarms of insects, and also the ground on which they dwell.
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"But on that day I will setapart the land of Goshen, where My people are living, so that noswarms of flies will be there, in order that you may know that I, the LORD, am in the midst of the land.
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Then the LORDdidso. And there camegreatswarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh and the houses of his servants and the land was laidwastebecause* of the swarms of flies in all the land of Egypt.
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But Mosessaid, "It is not right to doso, for we will sacrifice to the LORD our God what is an abomination to the Egyptians. If we sacrifice what is an abomination to the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not then stone us?
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Pharaohsaid, "I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only you shall not go very far away. Makesupplication for me."
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Then Mosessaid, "Behold, I am going out from you, and I shall makesupplication to the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his peopletomorrow; only do not let Pharaohdealdeceitfullyagain in not letting the peoplego to sacrifice to the LORD."