8:16
Now to the third plague, this time gnats. This time there is no warning to Pharaoh, no command to obey, just the imposition of the penalty. Following the usual pattern of God speaking to Moses, and then Moses passing on the instruction to Aaron, Aaron stretches out his hand over the land so that gnats would cover the land. As well as there being no warning to Pharaoh, this one involves the land, rather than the water.
8:17-19
So Aaron stretched out his hand with the staff and gnats arose and got absolutely everywhere, on both man and beast. Another difference is that this was something that the Egyptian magicians were unable to replicate. The magicians were rather concerned about this and so went to Pharaoh and told him that “this is the finger of God”. They recognised that they were up against something more serious. However, Pharaoh refused to listen to them. A common feature of tyrants is that they will even stop listening to their own advisors.
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