Add parallel Print Page Options

15 And Pharaoh saw that there was relief, and he made his heart insensitive,[a] and he did not listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

Plague Three: Gnats

16 And Yahweh said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the land, and it will become gnats[b] in all the land of Egypt.’” 17 And he did so, and Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff, and he struck the dust of the land, and it became gnats on the humans and on the animals; all of the dust of the land became gnats in all the land of Egypt.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Exodus 8:15 Literally “heavy”
  2. Exodus 8:16 Exactly what troublesome insect is uncertain