Again HaShem told Moshe to warn Paraoh that another plague would be on its way if Paraoh didn't let the Jews go. This time, it would be... FROGS! Everywhere!
"Frogs, eh?" Paraoh sneered. "Well, bring on the frogs, then, because I will NOT let the Jews go!"
So Aharon reached his stick out over the Nile, and a gigantic frog -- bigger than any frog anyone had ever seen before -- hopped right out of the water!
The Egyptians took one look at the enormous frog and did the only thing they could think of doing: They started hitting it with sticks. But they didn't succeed in killing it. Instead, every time someone hit it, little frogs would jump out of the big frog's mouth.
Soon there were frogs jumping around absolutely everywhere. There were frogs leaping on the Egyptians' beds, and even hopping into their burning hot ovens!
And as if that weren't bad enough, the frogs also made an amazingly loud and annoying croaking sound -- constantly. It drove the Egyptians totally crazy; no one could hear what anyone was saying, and it kept them up during the night.
The frogs were driving Paraoh cuckoo, too. They were all over his royal palace. And he didn't like having frogs hopping on his nose at night any more than anyone else did. So he called urgently for Moshe & Aharon.
"Enough already! Get rid of these frogs and I'll let the Jews go!" he shouted.
"All right, Paraoh. When exactly would you like to have the frogs gone?"
"Tomorrow."
"Tomorrow it is. The frogs that are in your homes, courtyards, and fields will be destroyed, but the frogs in the Nile will remain."
The very next day, HaShem made all of the frogs die, except for the ones in the river.
But Paraoh saw that his magicians could also make frogs appear, and besides, the frogs that had been jumping all around his kingdom were now gone... So he said: "I will not -- I repeat, NOT -- let the Jews go!"
