Exodus 8:3

ESV The Nile shall swarm with frogs that shall come up into your house and into your bedroom and on your bed and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and your kneading bowls.

NIV The Nile will teem with frogs. They will come up into your palace and your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and on your people, and into your ovens and kneading troughs.

NASB The Nile will swarm with frogs, which will come up and go into your house, and into your bedroom and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants, and on your people, and into your ovens and kneading bowls.

CSB The Nile will swarm with frogs; they will come up and go into your palace, into your bedroom and on your bed, into the houses of your officials and your people, and into your ovens and kneading bowls.

NLT The Nile River will swarm with frogs. They will come up out of the river and into your palace, even into your bedroom and onto your bed! They will enter the houses of your officials and your people. They will even jump into your ovens and your kneading bowls.

KJV And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:

NKJV So the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into your house, into your bedroom, on your bed, into the houses of your servants, on your people, into your ovens, and into your kneading bowls.

What does Exodus 8:3 mean?

Pharaoh may have thought he could ignore the first plague (Exodus 7:23). His people were forced to dig for water (Exodus 7:24) because the Nile had been transformed into putrid, decomposing blood (Exodus 7:20–22). Yet the king had servants to do this for him. There may have been insignificant impact on him, personally. The second plague will affect the entire country (Exodus 8:2), including Pharaoh's own home, his own servants, and even the Pharaoh himself.

Egyptian conjurers will also be able to summon frogs (Exodus 8:7), much like they were also able to mimic Moses' and Aaron's sign (Exodus 7:10–13) and the first plague (Exodus 7:20–22). But they seem unable to remove the frogs, causing Pharaoh to approach Moses and request the plague be lifted (Exodus 8:8). The Egyptian deity Heqet was a frog goddess, so the onset and ending of the plague on God's terms (Exodus 8:9–13) makes a point about the Lord's supremacy over false gods.

That the Nile "swarms with" these creatures might mean that they thrashed to escape as soon as the water became blood. Or it may mean that this plague did not happen until after the first plague's week was completed (Exodus 7:25).

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