The Plagues Begin
Exodus 8:1–15 · World English Bible
Exodus 8:1The LORD spoke to Moses,
Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what the LORD says, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.
Exodus 8:2If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your borders with frogs.
Exodus 8:3The river will swarm with frogs, which will go up and come into your house, and into your bedroom, and on your bed, and into the house of your servants, and on your people, and into your ovens, and into your kneading troughs.
Exodus 8:4The frogs shall come up both on you, and on your people, and on all your servants.”’”
Exodus 8:5The LORD said to Moses,
Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your rod over the rivers, over the streams, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.’
Exodus 8:6Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.
Exodus 8:7The magicians did the same thing with their enchantments, and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt.
Exodus 8:8Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said,
Entreat the LORD, that he take away the frogs from me and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to the LORD.
Exodus 8:9Moses said to Pharaoh,
I give you the honor of setting the time that I should pray for you, and for your servants, and for your people, that the frogs be destroyed from you and your houses, and remain in the river only.
Exodus 8:10Pharaoh said,
Tomorrow.
Moses said,
Let it be according to your word, that you may know that there is no one like the LORD our God.
Exodus 8:11The frogs shall depart from you, and from your houses, and from your servants, and from your people. They shall remain in the river only.”
Exodus 8:12Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to the LORD concerning the frogs which he had brought on Pharaoh.
Exodus 8:13The LORD did according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the courts, and out of the fields.
Exodus 8:14They gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.
Exodus 8:15But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn’t listen to them, as the LORD had spoken.