Daily Discovery Bible Study

1 Then the Lord told Moses, “Go and see Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: Let my people go, so that they can worship me.2 If you refuse to let them leave, I will send a plague of frogs all over your country.3 They will swarm out of the Nile, and they will enter your palace and get into your bedroom and jump onto your bed. They will get into the houses of your officials and jump around your people—even into your ovens and breadmaking bowls.4 Frogs will jump all over you, your people, and all your officials.’”

5 The Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Hold out your walking stick in your hand over the rivers and canals and ponds, and make frogs spread over Egypt.’”6 So Aaron held out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and frogs came up and covered the land.7 But the Egyptian magicians did the same thing using their magic arts. They brought up frogs in Egypt.

8 Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and pleaded with them, “Pray to the Lord, and ask him to take away the frogs from me and my people. Then I will let your people go so they can offer sacrifices to the Lord.”

9 “You may have the honor of deciding when I'll pray for you, your officials, and your people that the frogs will be removed from you and your houses. They will remain only in the Nile.”

10 “Do it tomorrow,” Pharaoh replied.

Moses said, “It will happen as you have requested so you will know that there is no one like the Lord our God. 11 The frogs will leave you and your houses, your officials and your people, and they will remain only in the Nile.”

12 Moses and Aaron left Pharaoh, and Moses pleaded with the Lord about the frogs he had sent against Pharaoh.13 The Lord did as Moses asked. The frogs in the houses, the courtyards, and the fields died.14 The people collected them in pile upon pile, and the whole country smelled terrible.15 But when Pharaoh realized the plague had passed he chose to become hard and stubborn again, wouldn't listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had predicted.

Exodus 8: 1-15