Exodus 8:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The magicians tried to produce gnats using their magic arts, but they could not. And the gnats remained on man and beast.”
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“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 · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“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;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Exodus 8:18 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 41:8In 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.
- Exodus 7:11But Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers and magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same things by their magic arts.
- Exodus 9:11The magicians could not stand before Moses, because the boils had broken out on them and on all the Egyptians.
- Exodus 10:23No one could see anyone else, and for three days no one left his place. Yet all the Israelites had light in their dwellings.
- Isaiah 19:12Where are your wise men now? Let them tell you and reveal what the LORD of Hosts has planned against Egypt.
- Isaiah 47:12So 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 2:10The 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.
- Daniel 4:7When the magicians, enchanters, astrologers, and diviners came in, I told them the dream, and they could not interpret it for me.
- Daniel 5:8So all the king’s wise men came in, but they could not read the inscription or interpret it for him.
- Luke 10:18So He told them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
- 2 Timothy 3:8Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth. They are depraved in mind and disqualified from the faith.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).