<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Tell Aaron, &#8216;Extend your staff and strike the dust of the ground, and it will become<n id="2" /> gnats<n id="3" /> throughout all the land of Egypt.&#8217;&#8221;

They did so; Aaron extended his hand with his staff, he struck the dust of the ground, and it became gnats on people<n id="1" /> and on animals. All the dust of the ground became gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.

<p class="bodytext">I will pass through<n id="1" /> the land of Egypt in the same<n id="2" /> night, and I will attack<n id="3" /> all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of humans and of animals,<n id="4" /> and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment.<n id="5" /> I am the <sc>Lordsc>.

The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, so that when I see<n id="1" /> the blood I will pass over you,<n id="2" /> and this plague<n id="3" /> will not fall on you to destroy you<n id="4" /> when I attack<n id="5" /> the land of Egypt.<n id="6" />p>

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">It happened<n id="2" /> at midnight &#8211; the <sc>Lordsc> attacked all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the prison, and all the firstborn of the cattle.

The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Go over before the people;<n id="1" /> take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand your staff with which you struck the Nile and go.

I will be standing<n id="1" /> before you there on<n id="2" /> the rock in Horeb, and you will strike<n id="3" /> the rock, and water will come out of it so that the people may drink.&#8221;<n id="4" /> And Moses did so in plain view<n id="5" /> of the elders of Israel.p>