10 You corrected your people like parents correcting their children as a warning, but you punished the others like a harsh king condemning a criminal.
11 All the Egyptians suffered—those who lived near your people and those who lived far away.
12 In fact, they suffered at the time of these disasters and again whenever they remembered what had happened.
13 And when the Egyptians learned that your people had benefited from these troubles, they realized that you, Lord, had done it all.
14 Earlier they had made fun of Moses, who had been placed outside to die when he was a baby, but now they were amazed at him, because they suffered from thirst much more severely than your people.
15 The Egyptians were so foolish and evil that they worshiped mindless snakes and worthless animals, and so you sent swarms of senseless creatures to punish them
16 and to teach them that sin brings its own punishment.