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Exodus 8:11(7:26) Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and tell him, ‘This is what the Lord has said: “Release my people in order that they may serve me!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 3:18Exod 3:12Exod 5:1Jer 1:17-19Exod 4:23Exod 7:16Ezek 2:6-7Jer 15:19-21
Exodus 8:22But if you refuse to release them, then I am going to plague all your territory with frogs.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 7:14Exod 9:2Ps 78:45Ps 105:30Rev 16:13-14
Exodus 8:33The Nile will swarm with frogs, and they will come up and go into your house, in your bedroom, and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and your kneading troughs.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 105:30Exod 12:34
Exodus 8:44Frogs will come up against you, your people, and all your servants.”’”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 12:22-23Dan 4:37Isa 19:11Isa 19:22Isa 23:9Ps 107:40
Exodus 8:55The Lord spoke to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Extend your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the canals, and over the ponds, and bring the frogs up over the land of Egypt.’”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 7:19
Exodus 8:66So Aaron extended his hand over the waters of Egypt, and frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 105:30Ps 78:45Lev 11:12Rev 16:13
Exodus 8:77The magicians did the same with their secret arts and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt too.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 7:11Exod 7:222 Thess 2:9-112 Tim 3:8Deut 13:1-3Matt 24:24Rev 13:14
Exodus 8:88Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Pray to the Lord that he may take the frogs away from me and my people, and I will release the people that they may sacrifice to the Lord.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 10:17Exod 8:25-28Exod 9:281 Kgs 13:6Exod 12:31-32Num 21:7Acts 8:24Exod 10:8-111 Sam 12:19Exod 10:24-27
Exodus 8:99Moses said to Pharaoh, “You may have the honor over me —when shall I pray for you, your servants, and your people, for the frogs to be removed from you and your houses, so that they will be left only in the Nile?”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 18:25Isa 10:15Judg 7:2
Exodus 8:1010He said, “Tomorrow.” And Moses said, “It will be as you say, so that you may know that there is no one like the Lord our God.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 17:202 Sam 7:22Isa 46:9Ps 86:8Deut 33:26Exod 9:14Jer 10:6-7Deut 32:31Deut 4:35Exod 15:11
Exodus 8:1111The frogs will depart from you, your houses, your servants, and your people; they will be left only in the Nile.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 8:3Exod 8:9
Exodus 8:1212Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to the Lord because of the frogs that he had brought on Pharaoh.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 5:16-181 Sam 12:23Exod 10:18Exod 32:11Exod 8:30Exod 8:8Exod 9:33Ezek 36:37
Exodus 8:1313The Lord did as Moses asked —the frogs died in the houses, the villages, and the fields.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 34:10-12
Exodus 8:1414The Egyptians piled them in countless heaps, and the land stank.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 7:21Exod 8:24Ezek 39:11Isa 34:2Joel 2:20
Exodus 8:1515But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and did not listen to them, just as the Lord had predicted.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eccl 8:11Isa 26:10Exod 7:4Heb 3:15Heb 3:8Exod 14:5Exod 4:21Exod 7:13-14Jer 34:7-11Zech 7:11-12
Exodus 8:1616The Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Extend your staff and strike the dust of the ground, and it will become gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.’”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 8:5Exod 8:17
Exodus 8:1717They did so; Aaron extended his hand with his staff, he struck the dust of the ground, and it became gnats on people and on animals. All the dust of the ground became gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 105:31Acts 12:23Isa 23:9
Exodus 8:1818When the magicians attempted to bring forth gnats by their secret arts, they could not. So there were gnats on people and on animals.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 7:11Exod 9:11Dan 5:82 Tim 3:8-9Dan 2:10-11Dan 4:7Gen 41:8Isa 19:12Isa 47:12-13Luke 10:18
Exodus 8:1919The magicians said to Pharaoh, “It is the finger of God!” But Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had predicted.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 11:20Ps 8:3Exod 7:5Matt 12:28Acts 4:161 Sam 6:31 Sam 6:9Dan 2:10-11Dan 2:19Exod 10:7
Exodus 8:2020The Lord said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and position yourself before Pharaoh as he goes out to the water, and tell him, ‘This is what the Lord has said, “Release my people that they may serve me!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 7:15Exod 9:13Exod 3:18Exod 8:1
Exodus 8:2121If you do not release my people, then I am going to send swarms of flies on you and on your servants and on your people and in your houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of flies, and even the ground they stand on.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 7:18Ps 105:31Ps 78:45
Exodus 8:2222But on that day I will mark off the land of Goshen, where my people are staying, so that no swarms of flies will be there, that you may know that I am the Lord in the midst of this land.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 9:4Mal 3:18Exod 10:23Exod 9:6Ezek 30:19Ps 110:2Exod 11:6-7Exod 12:13Exod 7:17Exod 8:10
Exodus 8:2323I will put a division between my people and your people. This sign will take place tomorrow.”’”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Exodus 8:2424The Lord did so; a thick swarm of flies came into Pharaoh’s house and into the houses of his servants, and throughout the whole land of Egypt the land was ruined because of the swarms of flies.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 105:31Ps 78:45Exod 8:21
Exodus 8:2525Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God within the land.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 8:8Exod 9:27Exod 10:16Exod 12:31Rev 3:9
Exodus 8:2626But Moses said, “That would not be the right thing to do, for the sacrifices we make to the Lord our God would be an abomination to the Egyptians. If we make sacrifices that are an abomination to the Egyptians right before their eyes, will they not stone us?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 43:32Gen 46:341 Kgs 11:5-72 Cor 6:14-172 Kgs 23:13Deut 12:30-31Deut 7:25-26Exod 3:18Ezra 9:1Isa 44:19
Exodus 8:2727We must go on a three-day journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the Lord our God, just as he is telling us.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 3:18Exod 3:12Exod 10:26Exod 34:11Exod 5:1Lev 10:1Matt 28:20
Exodus 8:2828Pharaoh said, “I will release you so that you may sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness. Only you must not go very far. Do pray for me.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 8:8Exod 9:281 Kgs 13:6Acts 8:24Exod 10:17Exod 8:29Ezra 6:10Eccl 6:10Hos 10:2
Exodus 8:2929Moses said, “I am going to go out from you and pray to the Lord, and the swarms of flies will go away from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people tomorrow. Only do not let Pharaoh deal falsely again by not releasing the people to sacrifice to the Lord.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 8:15Exod 8:8Jer 42:20-21Acts 5:3-4Gal 6:7Ps 66:3Ps 78:34-37
Exodus 8:3030So Moses went out from Pharaoh and prayed to the Lord,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 8:12Exod 9:33Jas 5:16
Exodus 8:3131and the Lord did as Moses asked —he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. Not one remained!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Exodus 8:3232But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also and did not release the people.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 8:15Exod 4:21Rom 2:5Acts 28:26-27Exod 7:13-14Exod 8:8Isa 63:17Jas 1:13-14
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