“And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.”
They did this, and when Aaron stretched out his hand with the staff and struck the dust of the ground, gnats came on people and animals. All the dust throughout the land of Egypt became gnats. Gnats from the dust of the ground. The dust God used to form humanity in Genesis 2:7 now becomes the instrument of judgment against the nation that reduced humanity to slavery. The gnats — kinnim in Hebrew, possibly lice or mosquitoes — swarm over both people and animals, the same categories of life God created in Genesis 1 and preserved in Noah's ark. The plague touches the entirety of living creation within Egypt. What God formed from dust He can transform from dust; the same sovereign creativity that shaped Adam now shapes a plague. The ground itself testifies against the oppressor.
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