Wisdom 12:25-26
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25 Therefore as though upon unreasoning children,
you sent your judgment on them as a mockery;(A)
26 But they who took no heed of a punishment which was but child’s play
were to experience a condemnation worthy of God.
Exodus 7:11-12
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11 Pharaoh, in turn, summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, and they also, the magicians(A) of Egypt, did the same thing by their magic arts. 12 Each one threw down his staff, and they turned into serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed their staffs.
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Exodus 7:22
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22 But the Egyptian magicians did the same[a] by their magic arts. So Pharaoh hardened his heart and would not listen to them, just as the Lord had said.
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- 7:22 The Egyptian magicians did the same: this is an exaggeration, presumably influenced by the similar statement in v. 11; whereas the magicians could turn their staffs into snakes after Aaron had done so, after Aaron’s sign there should not have been any water in Egypt still unchanged to blood for the magicians “to do the same” with it (cf. v. 24).
Exodus 8:3
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3 But the magicians did the same by their magic arts and made frogs overrun the land of Egypt.
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Exodus 9:11
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11 Because of the boils the magicians could not stand in Moses’ presence, for there were boils on the magicians as well as on the rest of the Egyptians.
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Exodus 10:2
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2 and that you may recount to your son and grandson how I made a fool of the Egyptians and what signs I did among them, so that you may know that I am the Lord.(A)
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