19 And the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and ^lstretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, their canals, and their ponds, and all their pools of water, so that ^mthey may become blood, and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, even in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’”

The Third Plague: Gnats

16 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, so that it may become gnats in all the land of Egypt.’” 17 And they did so. Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth, and ^zthere were gnats on man and beast. All the dust of the earth became gnats in all the land of Egypt.