Bible Verses

If you refuse to let them go, I will send horseflies on you, your officials, your people, and your houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be filled with horseflies, and even the ground on which they are built.

The Fourth Plague: Flies The Lord said to Moses: “Rise early in the morning and go to Pharaoh when he is on his way to the river. Say to him: This is the Lord’s message: Let my people go and worship me.

The magicians said to Pharaoh: “This is the finger of God.” But Pharaoh was unmoved and did not listen, as the Lord had foretold.

But when the magicians tried, employing their secret formulas, to drive away the mosquitoes, they could not, and the mosquitoes kept tormenting people and animals.

Aaron did this; he struck the dust of the earth, which turned into mosquitoes that tormented people and animals. All the dust of the earth all over Egypt turned into mosquitoes.

The Third Plague: Gnats The Lord said to Moses: “Tell Aaron to strike the dust of the earth with his staff and turn it into mosquitoes throughout the land.”

Now that relief had come, Pharaoh became even more stubborn and refused to listen, just as the Lord had predicted.

The people gathered them in heaps, and the land was filled with a foul smell.

The Lord did as Moses had asked, and the frogs died in the houses, farms, and fields.

With this, Moses and Aaron left Pharaoh. Then Moses prayed to the Lord about the frogs he had brought on Pharaoh.