This verse seems to imply that the magicians now formally gave way and confessed their defeat.

The magicians could not stand before Moses. —It is uncertain whether the magicians were present accidentally, or had come…

And the magicians could not. Since the magicians were now also at hand, no doubt they were possessed by their former folly, so that they s…

And the magicians could not stand before Moses, because of the
boils Which were on them as…

When the Egyptians were not moved by the death of their cattle, God sent a plague that seized their own bodies. If lesser judgments do not work, Go…