He sent swarms of biting insects against them, ¹  as well as frogs that overran their land. ² 

He ordered flies to come; ¹  gnats invaded their whole territory.

The Lord did so; a ¹  thick ²  swarm of flies came into ³  Pharaoh’s house and into the houses ⁴  of his servants, and throughout the whole land of Egypt the land was ruined ⁵  because of the swarms of flies.

One dead fly ¹  makes the perfumer’s ointment give off a rancid stench, ²  so a little folly can outweigh ³  much wisdom. ⁴ 

any kind of land animal, any bird that flies in the sky,

You need not fear the terrors of the night, ¹  the arrow that flies by day,

Increase ¹  your merchants more than the stars of heaven! They are like ²  the young locust which sheds ³  its skin and flies away.

and the Lord did as Moses asked ¹  – he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. Not one remained!

If you do not release ¹  my people, then I am going to send ²  swarms of flies ³  on you and on your servants and on your people and in your houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of flies, and even the ground they stand on. ⁴ 

Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, ¹  and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.

But on that day I will mark off ¹  the land of Goshen, where my people are staying, ²  so that no swarms of flies will be there, that you may know that I am the Lord in the midst of this land. ³ 

Moses said, “I am going to go out ¹  from you and pray to the Lord, and the swarms of flies will go away from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people tomorrow. Only do not let Pharaoh deal falsely again ²  by not releasing ³  the people to sacrifice to the Lord.”

When you gaze upon riches, ¹  they are gone, for they surely make wings for themselves, and fly off into the sky like an eagle! ² 

At that time ¹  the Lord will whistle for flies from the distant streams of Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria. ² 

The Lord will raise up a distant nation against you, one from the other side of the earth ¹  as the eagle flies, ²  a nation whose language you will not understand,

So Moses went out from Pharaoh and prayed to the Lord,

and any winged thing on the ground are impure to you – they may not be eaten. ¹ 

He ¹  sends his command through the earth; ²  swiftly his order reaches its destination. ³ 

A person who has a quick temper ¹  does foolish things, and a person with crafty schemes ²  is hated. ³ 

Wealth adds many friends, but a poor person is separated ¹  from his friend. ²