Exodus 10

Here we have Plagues VIII and IX and the continued development of the account toward its inevitable climax. Like all of the preceding signs, these also sprang out of nature, but conspicuously under the control and at the direction of Jehovah. The gradations and subtle changes in the situation noticed in the previous wonders appear here also in (1) the fact of Pharaoh's attempting to negotiate with Moses before the plague came, and (2) in the insistence of Pharaoh's own people that he let the men go.