But Pharaoh called together the wise men of Egypt, and the sorcerers, and the charmers, also of the Egyptians, [and they] did likewise with their sorceries.

And they cast down each his rod, and they became serpents, but the rod of Aaron swallowed up their rods.

And the charmers also did so with their sorceries, to bring forth the lice, but they could not. And the lice were both on the men and on the beasts.

So the charmers said to Pharaoh, This is the finger of God. But the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not listen to them, as the Lord said.

Stand now with your enchantments, and with the abundance of your sorcery, which you have learned from your youth; if you can be profited.

Behold, they all shall be burned up as sticks in the fire; neither shall they at all deliver their life from the flame. Because you have coals of fire, sit upon them;

And in just the way Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, thus also these resist the truth: men corrupted in mind, disapproved regarding the faith.

But they shall not advance further, for their folly shall be manifest to all, as also theirs became.

So the first went off and poured out his bowl on the earth, and a bad and malignant ulcer came upon the men having the mark of the beast, and those who worshipped his image.