Exodus 8:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the wonder-workers with their secret arts, attempting to make insects, were unable to do so: and there were insects on man and on beast.

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  • Exod 7:11 : 11 Then Pharaoh sent for the wise men and the wonder-workers, and they, the wonder-workers of Egypt, did the same with their secret arts.
  • Exod 9:11 : 11 And the wonder-workers were not able to take their places before Moses, because of the disease; for the disease was on the wonder-workers and on all the Egyptians.
  • Dan 5:8 : 8 Then all the king's wise men came in: but they were not able to make out the writing or give the sense of it to the king.
  • Luke 10:18 : 18 And he said, I was watching for Satan, falling from heaven like a star.
  • 2 Tim 3:8-9 : 8 And as James and Jambres went against Moses, so do these go against what is true: men of evil minds, who, tested by faith, are seen to be false. 9 But they will go no farther: for their foolish behaviour will be clear to all men, as theirs was in the end.
  • Gen 41:8 : 8 And in the morning his spirit was troubled; and he sent for all the wise men of Egypt and all the holy men, and put his dream before them, but no one was able to give him the sense of it.
  • Isa 19:12 : 12 Where, then, are your wise men? let them make clear to you, let them give you knowledge of the purpose of the Lord of armies for Egypt.
  • Isa 47:12-13 : 12 Go on now with your secret arts, and all your wonder-working, to which you have given yourself up from your earliest days; it may be that they will be of profit to you, or by them you may put fear into your attackers. 13 But your mind is troubled by the number of your guides: let them now come forward for your salvation: the measurers of the heavens, the watchers of the stars, and those who are able to say from month to month what things are coming on you.
  • Dan 2:10-11 : 10 Then the Chaldaeans said to the king in answer, There is not a man on earth able to make clear the king's business; for no king, however great his power, has ever made such a request to any wonder-worker or user of secret arts or Chaldaean. 11 The king's request is a very hard one, and there is no other who is able to make it clear to the king, but the gods, whose living-place is not with flesh.
  • Dan 4:7 : 7 Then the wonder-workers, the users of secret arts, the Chaldaeans, and the readers of signs came in to me: and I put the dream before them but they did not make clear the sense of it to me.

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  • Exod 8:12-17
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    89%

    12 Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh; and Moses made prayer to the Lord about the frogs which he had sent on Pharaoh.

    13 And the Lord did as Moses said; and there was an end of all the frogs in the houses and in the open spaces and in the fields.

    14 And they put them together in masses, and a bad smell went up from the land.

    15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was peace for a time, he made his heart hard and did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.

    16 And the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Let your rod be stretched out over the dust of the earth so that it may become insects through all the land of Egypt.

    17 And they did so; and Aaron, stretching out the rod in his hand, gave a touch to the dust of the earth, and insects came on man and on beast; all the dust of the earth was changed into insects through all the land of Egypt.

  • Exod 8:4-7
    4 verses
    77%

    4 The frogs will come up over you and your people and all your servants.

    5 And the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Let the rod in your hand be stretched out over the streams and the waterways and the pools, causing frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.

    6 And when Aaron put out his hand over the waters of Egypt, the frogs came up and all the land of Egypt was covered with them.

    7 And the wonder-workers did the same with their secret arts, making frogs come up over the land of Egypt.

  • Exod 9:7-12
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    77%

    7 And Pharaoh sent and got word that there was no loss of any of the cattle of Israel. But the heart of Pharaoh was hard and he did not let the people go.

    8 And the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron, Take in your hand a little dust from the fire and let Moses send it in a shower up to heaven before the eyes of Pharaoh.

    9 And it will become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and will be a skin-disease bursting out in wounds on man and beast through all the land of Egypt.

    10 So they took some dust from the fire, and placing themselves before Pharaoh, Moses sent it out in a shower up to heaven; and it became a skin-disease bursting out on man and on beast.

    11 And the wonder-workers were not able to take their places before Moses, because of the disease; for the disease was on the wonder-workers and on all the Egyptians.

    12 And the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he would not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.

  • Ps 105:30-31
    2 verses
    76%

    30 Their land was full of frogs, even in the rooms of the king.

    31 He gave the word, and there came the dog-fly, and insects over all the land.

  • Exod 8:19
    76%

    19 Then the wonder-workers said to Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: but Pharaoh's heart was hard, and he did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.

  • Exod 8:24
    74%

    24 And the Lord did so; and great clouds of flies came into the house of Pharaoh and into his servants' houses, and all the land of Egypt was made waste because of the flies.

  • Exod 7:10-12
    3 verses
    72%

    10 Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and they did as the Lord had said: and Aaron put his rod down on the earth before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a snake.

    11 Then Pharaoh sent for the wise men and the wonder-workers, and they, the wonder-workers of Egypt, did the same with their secret arts.

    12 For every one of them put down his rod on the earth, and they became snakes: but Aaron's rod made a meal of their rods.

  • Exod 7:22
    72%

    22 And the wonder-workers of Egypt did the same with their secret arts: but Pharaoh's heart was made hard, and he would not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.

  • Exod 8:31
    71%

    31 And the Lord did as Moses said, and took away the cloud of flies from Pharaoh and from his servants and from his people; not one was to be seen.

  • Exod 8:21-22
    2 verses
    70%

    21 For if you do not let my people go, see, I will send clouds of flies on you and on your servants and on your people and into their houses; and the houses of the Egyptians and the land where they are will be full of flies.

    22 And at that time I will make a division between your land and the land of Goshen where my people are, and no flies will be there; so that you may see that I am the Lord over all the earth.

  • Exod 10:12-14
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    68%

    12 And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out over the land of Egypt so that the locusts may come up on the land for the destruction of every green plant in the land, even everything untouched by the ice-storm.

    13 And Moses' rod was stretched out over the land of Egypt, and the Lord sent an east wind over the land all that day and all the night; and in the morning the locusts came up with the east wind.

    14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, resting on every part of the land, in very great numbers; such an army of locusts had never been seen before, and never will be again.

  • Ps 135:8-9
    2 verses
    67%

    8 He put to death the first-fruits of Egypt, of man and of beast.

    9 He sent signs and wonders among you, O Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his servants.

  • Ps 78:44-45
    2 verses
    67%

    44 So that their rivers were turned to blood, and they were not able to get drink from their streams.

    45 He sent different sorts of flies among them, poisoning their flesh; and frogs for their destruction.

  • Exod 9:3
    66%

    3 Then the hand of the Lord will put on your cattle in the field, on the horses and the asses and the camels, on the herds and the flocks, a very evil disease.

  • Exod 8:2
    66%

    2 And if you will not let them go, see, I will send frogs into every part of your land:

  • Deut 28:27
    66%

    27 The Lord will send on you the disease of Egypt, and other sorts of skin diseases which nothing will make well.

  • Exod 8:29
    66%

    29 And Moses said, When I go out from you I will make prayer to the Lord that the cloud of flies may go away from Pharaoh and from his people and from his servants tomorrow: only let Pharaoh no longer by deceit keep back the people from making their offering to the Lord.