¹⁸ The ^(A)magicians tried by their secret arts to produce gnats, but they could not. So there were gnats on man and beast.

¹¹ Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, and they, the ^(A)magicians of Egypt, also ^(B)did the same by their secret arts.

¹¹ And ^(A)the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils came upon the magicians and upon all the Egyptians.

⁸ Then all the king's wise men came in, but ^(A)they could not read the writing or make known to the king the interpretation.

⁸ Just as ^(A)Jannes and Jambres ^(B)opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, ^(C)men corrupted in mind and ^(D)disqualified regarding the faith. ⁹ But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, ^(E)as was that of those two men.

¹⁸ And he said to them, ^(A)“I saw Satan ^(B)fall like lightning from heaven.

⁷ Then ^(A)the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers came in, and I told them the dream, but ^(B)they could not make known to me its interpretation.

^10 (A)The Chaldeans answered the king and said, “There is not a man on earth who can meet the king's demand, for no great and powerful king has asked such a thing of any magician or enchanter or ^(B)Chaldean. ¹¹ The thing that the king asks is difficult, and no one can show it to the king except ^(C)the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.”