Reading the Bible Through

Exodus 8-10   The plague of frogs. If all the Nile was turned to blood and everything in it died, where did the frogs come from? I know frogs don't stay in the water. Maybe the blood is part of why they got out. Who knows? Sometimes I do like to consider possible natural, rather than miraculous, explanations. For me, that doesn't make them any less wonderous. How did the magicians get frogs to come up? I'm still curious about how they did these things.  So if the frogs were to only be in the Nile, was it no longer turned into blood? When did that happen? Why?  Also, when Moses has Pharaoh appoint the time for the frogs to be gone, why does Pharaoh say tomorrow instead of right now?  The magicians could not produce gnats. Why not? Why frogs, but not gnats? If the magicians were using an evil power wouldn't that power be able to produce gnats? The magicians say, "This is the finger of God." To  me, this says there was something different this time, but I don...

Exodus 5-7   The beginning here confuses me. Moses and Aaron are saying that the Lord told them to take the Israelites into the wilderness for a 3 day festival to the Lord or they may be struck with famine or swords. I didn't understand anything about a festival from what I read earlier. Still, I guess they might get farther with that than just 'see ya.' I've always been puzzled as to how the Egyptian wise men and sorcerers also turned their staffs into snakes. Some would say by evil, but I have always wondered about some kind of trickery. Still, Aaron's staff (notice it's now Aaron's staff, not Moses like near the burning bush) eats up all the other snake/staffs. Pretty impressive.  Now the Egyptian magicians were also able to turn water into blood. I still wanna know how. Now, I also want to know were these Egyptian magicians got any water to turn it into blood? It looks like Moses and Aaron were pretty thorough. Maybe from the water people were digging up...