¹² Each one threw down his staff and it became a snake. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.

¹⁸ But when the magicians^(A) tried to produce gnats by their secret arts,^(B) they could not.

Since the gnats were on people and animals everywhere,

¹¹ The magicians^(A) could not stand before Moses because of the boils that were on them and on all the Egyptians.