8:18 When 1 the magicians attempted 2 to bring forth gnats by their secret arts, they could not. So there were gnats on people and on animals.
Exodus 8:17
8:17 They did so; Aaron extended his hand with his staff, he struck the dust of the ground, and it became gnats on people 3 and on animals. All the dust of the ground became gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.
1 tn The preterite with vav (ו) consecutive is here subordinated to the main clause as a temporal clause.
2 tnHeb “and the magicians did so.”
3 tnHeb “man,” but in the generic sense of “humans” or “people” (also in v. 18).