The Koine Bible

And the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron your brother, Stretch out with your hand your rod over the rivers and over the channels and over the marshes, and bring up the frogs.

And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and brought up the frogs, and the frog came up and covered the land of Egypt

And the magicians of the Egyptians did likewise also by their enchantments, and they brought up the frogs upon the land of Egypt.

And Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and said, Pray concerning me to the Lord, and let him take away the frogs from me and from my people, and I will send away the people, and they shall sacrifice to the Lord.

And Moses said to Pharaoh, Appoint me when I should pray for you and for your attendants and for your people, to destroy the frogs from you and from your people and from your houses; only in the river they shall be left behind.

And he said, Tomorrow. And he said, So let it be as you have said, in order that you may know that there is no other except the Lord.

and the frogs shall be removed from you and from your houses and from your courtyards and from your servants and from your people; only in the river shall they be left behind

And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried out to the Lord concerning the matter of the frogs, as Pharaoh had ordered.

And the Lord did just as Moses said, and the frogs died out of the houses and out of the courtyards and out of the fields.

And they gathered them, heap after heap, and the land stank.

But when Pharaoh saw that there had been relief, his heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had spoken.

And the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Stretch out your rod with your hand and strike the dust of the earth, and there shall be gnats in both the men and in the beasts and in all the land of Egypt.

So Aaron stretched out the rod with his hand and struck the dust of the earth, and the gnats came to be both on the people and on the beasts, and in all the dust of the earth the gnats came to be in all the land of Egypt.

And the incantators also did likewise by their sorceries to bring out the gnat, but they were not able, and the gnats came to be upon the men and upon the four-footed animals

So the magicians said to Pharaoh, This is the finger of God. And Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had spoken.

And the Lord said to Moses, Rise early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh, and behold, he himself will go out to the water, and you shall say to him: Thus says the Lord, Send out my people, that they may serve me in the wilderness.

But if you do not wish to send out my people, behold, I am sending upon you and upon your servants and upon your people and upon your houses swarms of flies, and the houses of the Egyptians shall be filled with the swarms of flies, and also upon the land on which they are, upon it.

And I will distinguish in that day the land of Goshen, on which my people are stationed on it, on which there shall not be there the dog-fly, so that you may know that I am the Lord, the Lord of all the earth.

And I will put a distinction between my people and between your people; and tomorrow this sign will be upon the land.

And the Lord did thus, and the dog-fly came in a multitude into the houses of Pharaoh and into the houses of his servants and into all the land of Egypt, and the land was destroyed by the dog-fly.

And Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron, saying, Having gone, sacrifice to your God in the land.

And Moses said, It is not possible for it to be so, for we shall sacrifice the abominations of the Egyptians to the Lord our God; for if we shall sacrifice the abominations of the Egyptians before them, we shall be stoned.

Three days’ journey we will go into the wilderness, and we will sacrifice to the Lord our God, just as he said to us.

And Pharaoh said, I am sending you, and sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness; only you shall not go far away. Pray, therefore, for me to the Lord.

And Moses said, Behold, I will go out from you and will pray to God, and the dog-fly will depart from you and from your servants and from your people tomorrow; let not Pharaoh again continue to deceive, not to send out the people to sacrifice to the Lord.

And Moses went out from Pharaoh and prayed to God

And the Lord did just as Moses said, and he removed the dog-fly from Pharaoh and from his servants and from his people, and not one was left behind.

And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, and he was not willing to send away the people.