The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 8:7

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

The magicians did so … and brought up frogs. Here again, as in their imitation of the first plague (Exodus 7:22), sleight of hand may have been the means employed by the magicians; or possibly they may have merely claimed that their enchantments "brought up" frogs, which were in reality the consequence of Aaron's act (Exodus 8:2).

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