“And the Lord spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.”
Then the Lord said to Moses: tell Aaron, stretch out your hand with your staff over the streams and canals and ponds, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt. As in the first plague, Aaron is the instrument of the sign — Moses speaks, Aaron acts. The streams, canals, and ponds echo the comprehensive scope of the first plague: all of Egypt's water system is involved. The frogs emerge from the waters, which in Egyptian cosmology represent the primeval chaos from which creation arose; they are inverting the created order, returning to the pre-creation state. Genesis 1:2 described the formless void before God's ordering work; the plagues are a systematic un-creation of Egypt's ordered world, a reversal of the blessing of Genesis 1. What God created in grace He can uncreate in judgment — the message Egypt is receiving with every plague.
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