¹¹ Then Pharaoh also ^(A)called for the wise men and the sorcerers, and they too, the ^(B)soothsayer priests of Egypt, did the same with ^(C)their secret arts.

¹² For each one threw down his staff, and they turned into serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed their staffs.

¹⁸ The soothsayer priests tried with their secret arts to produce ^[a]gnats, but ^(A)they could not; so there were ^[b]gnats on every person and animal.

^11 (A)The soothsayer priests could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils were on the soothsayer priests as well as on all the Egyptians.