Exodus 8:18

Translations

Modern

The magicians tried to produce gnats using their magic arts, but they could not. And the gnats remained on man and beast.

Traditional

And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not: so there were lice upon man, and upon beast.

Literal

And the magicians with their secret arts did so to bring forth the gnats, and they could not. And the gnat was on the man and on the beast.

Latin

Feceruntque similiter malefici incantationibus suis, ut educerent sciniphes, et non potuerunt: erantque sciniphes tam in hominibus quam in jumentis.

Original

Hebrew

English

The magicians tried to produce gnats using their magic arts, but they could not. And the gnats remained on man and beast.

Notes

Exodus 8:16–19

The third plague was the plague of gnats. The word translated gnats is very general. Technical Old Testament dictionaries often translate it as vermin. The English term bugs would come close. The whole land was infested with insects of one sort or another.

Theme notes and profiles

Egypt Moses Pharaoh The Plagues

Events

Exodus from Egyptc. 1491 BC

Related verses

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But Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers and magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same things by their magic arts.
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Daniel 5:8
So all the king’s wise men came in, but they could not read the inscription or interpret it for him.
Isaiah 19:12
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Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth. They are depraved in mind and disqualified from the faith.
Luke 10:18
So He told them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
Isaiah 47:12–13
So take your stand with your spells and with your many sorceries, with which you have wearied yourself from your youth. Perhaps you will succeed; perhaps you will inspire terror!
Daniel 4:7
When the magicians, enchanters, astrologers, and diviners came in, I told them the dream, but they could not interpret it for me.
Daniel 2:10–11
The astrologers answered the king, “No one on earth can do what the king requests! No king, however great and powerful, has ever asked anything like this of any magician, enchanter, or astrologer.
Genesis 41:8
In the morning his spirit was troubled, so he summoned all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.

Glossary

Aaron Book of Exodus Deuteronomy, Book of Frog Gnat Hardness of Heart History of Israel Jannes and Jambres Lice Magic Miracle Numbers and Numerology Plague Plagues upon Egypt

Topics

Lice: Plague of Magician: Wrought Apparent Miracles Plague: The Plague of Lice Sorcery: Practiced by the Magicians

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