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swarms of flies
so many flies that it looked like a cloud
that devoured them
The flies made the Egyptians almost as unhappy as they would have if they had eaten the Egyptians. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-hyperbole)
overran their land
"went everywhere in their land"