“‘Every winged swarming thing that walks on all fours ¹  is detestable to you.

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

But any other winged swarming thing that has four legs is detestable to you.

However, this you may eat from all the winged swarming things that walk on all fours, which have jointed legs ¹  to hop with on the land.

When ¹  the magicians attempted ²  to bring forth gnats by their secret arts, they could not. So there were gnats on people and on animals.

Whirring locusts ¹  will take over every tree and all the produce of your soil.

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.

you animals and all you cattle, you creeping things and birds,

locusts have no king, but they all go forward by ranks; ¹ 

Your riches have rotted and your clothing has become moth-eaten.

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.

Then I will stop the plague ¹  from ruining your crops, ²  and the vine will not lose its fruit before harvest,” says the Lord who rules over all.

I keep track of ¹  every bird in the hills, and the insects ²  of the field are mine.

The wild boars of the forest ruin it; ¹  the insects ²  of the field feed on it.

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!

We even saw the Nephilim ¹  there (the descendants of Anak came from the Nephilim), and we seemed liked grasshoppers both to ourselves ²  and to them.” ³ 

They did so; Aaron extended his hand with his staff, he struck the dust of the ground, and it became gnats on people ¹  and on animals. All the dust of the ground became gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.

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 

They entered, ¹  along with every living creature after its kind, every animal after its kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, everything with wings. ²