²² They prove the truth of this proverb: “A dog returns to its vomit.”^[a] And another says, “A washed pig returns to the mud.”

⁴⁵ Then the spirit finds seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they all enter the person and live there. And so that person is worse off than before. That will be the experience of this evil generation.”

¹⁵ But when Pharaoh saw that relief had come, he became stubborn.^[a] He refused to listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had predicted.