Exodus 8:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ The magicians tried to produce gnats by their secret arts, but they could not. There were gnats on both humans and animals.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ The magicians tried by their enchantments and secret arts to bring forth gnats or mosquitoes, but they could not; and there were gnats or mosquitoes on man and beast.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ 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.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ The religious experts tried to produce lice by their secret knowledge, but they weren’t able to do it. There were lice on people and animals.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ And the sorcerers, with their incantations, did similarly, in order to bring forth stinging insects, but they were not able. And there were stinging insects, as much on men as on beasts.

Exodus 8:18 Cross References

Exodus 7:11

Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same by their secret arts.

Exodus 9:11

The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils afflicted the magicians as well as all the Egyptians.

Daniel 5:8

Then all the king’s wise men came in, but they could not read the writing or tell the king the interpretation.

Luke 10:18

He said to them, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning.

Daniel 4:7

Then the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the diviners came in, and I told them the dream, but they could not tell me its interpretation.

Isaiah 19:12

Where now are your sages? Let them tell you and make known what the Lord of hosts has planned against Egypt.

Genesis 41:8

In the morning his spirit was troubled, so he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.

Exodus 7:12

Each one threw down his staff, and they became snakes, but Aaron’s staff swallowed up theirs.

Exodus 8:7

But the magicians did the same by their secret arts and brought frogs up on the land of Egypt.

Exodus 10:23

People could not see one another, and for three days they could not move from where they were, but all the Israelites had light where they lived.