¹⁸ And the scribes did so with their sorceries, to bring forth gnats; but they could not. And the gnats were on man and on beast.

⁴ You shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,

⁵ to listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send to you, even rising up early and sending them, but you have not listened;