Exodus 8:16-19

New King James Version

The Third Plague: Lice

¹⁶ So the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your rod, and strike the dust of the land, so that it may become ^[a]lice throughout all the land of Egypt.’ ” ¹⁷ And they did so. For Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod and struck the dust of the earth, and ^(A)it became lice on man and beast. All the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.

¹⁸ Now ^(B)the magicians so worked with their ^[b]enchantments to bring forth lice, but they ^(C)could not. So there were lice on man and beast. ¹⁹ Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is ^(D)the^[c] finger of God.” But Pharaoh’s ^(E)heart grew hard, and he did not heed them, just as the Lord had said.