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did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of
Egypt. Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Entreat the
Lord that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my people,
and I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice unto the Lord.
And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Glory over me. When shall I entreat
for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to destroy the frogs
from thee and thy houses, that they may remain in the river only? And
he said, Tomorrow. And he said, Be it according to thy word, that thou
mayest know that there is none like unto the Lord our God.”
Although the magicians appeared to produce frogs like Moses
and Aaron, they could not remove them. When Pharaoh saw that
the magicians could not stay the plague, or remove the frogs, he was
somewhat humbled, and would have Moses and Aaron entreat the Lord
for him, to remove the plague of the frogs. He was beginning to know
something about that God whom he professed to be wholly ignorant
of. Moses and Aaron had told Pharaoh that they did not produce the
frogs by magic, or by any power they possessed; that God, the living
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God, had caused them to come by his power, and that he alone could
remove them. Previous to this, Pharaoh had exulted over Moses and
Aaron, because the magicians could cause the same things to appear
with their enchantments. And when he asked Moses to entreat the
Lord for him, he reminded him of his former haughty boasting and
glorying because of the works performed by his magicians; and he
asked Pharaoh where was now his glorying over him, and where was
the power of those magicians to remove the plague.
The Lord listened to the entreaties of Moses, and stayed the plague
of the frogs. When the king was relieved of his immediate distress,
he again stubbornly refused to let Israel go. Moses and Aaron, at the
commandment of the Lord, caused the dust of the land to become
lice throughout all the land of Egypt. Pharaoh called the magicians
to stand before him to do the same with their enchantments, but they
could not. Moses and Aaron, the servants of God, at his command,
produced the plague of the lice. The magicians, the servants of Satan,
at his command tried to produce the same with their enchantments,
but could not. The work of God was shown superior to the power of
Satan; for the magicians with their enchantments could perform but a
few things. When the magicians saw that they could not produce the
lice, they said unto Pharaoh, “This is the finger of God. And Pharaoh’s
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