Exodus 8:18 “The magicians tried to produce gnats using their magic arts, but they…”

Exodus 8:18

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

The magicians tried with their enchantments to produce lice, but they couldn’t. There were lice on man, and on animal.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Nowe the enchanters assaied likewise with their enchantments to bring forth lyce, but they could not. So the lyce were vpon man and vpon beast.

Darby Translation

And the scribes did so with their sorceries, to bring forth gnats; but they could not. And the gnats were on man and on beast.

Young's Literal Translation

And the scribes do so with their flashings, to bring out the gnats, and they have not been able, and the gnats are on man and on beast;

Bible in Basic English

And the wonder-workers with their secret arts, attempting to make insects, were unable to do so: and there were insects on man and on beast.

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Cross references

“the magicians”

Exodus 7:11

Exodus 7:11 · BSB

But Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers and magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same things by their magic arts.

“they could”

Exodus 9:11 Daniel 5:8 Genesis 41:8 Isaiah 19:12 Daniel 4:7 Luke 10:18

Exodus 9:11 · BSB

The magicians could not stand before Moses, because the boils had broken out on them and on all the Egyptians.

Daniel 5:8 · BSB

So all the king’s wise men came in, but they could not read the inscription or interpret it for him.

Genesis 41:8 · BSB

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.

Isaiah 19:12 · BSB

Where are your wise men now? Let them tell you and reveal what the LORD of Hosts has planned against Egypt.

Daniel 4:7 · BSB

When the magicians, enchanters, astrologers, and diviners came in, I told them the dream, but they could not interpret it for me.

Luke 10:18 · BSB

So He told them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

17This they did, and when Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth, gnats came upon man and beast. All the dust of the earth turned into gnats throughout the land of Egypt.

19“This is the finger of God,” the magicians said to Pharaoh. But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.

Read Exodus 8