turned again
Exodus 4:7
4:7 turned again. The order in this case was, first, a providential miracle, then a creative healing miracle, opposite to the order in the first paired miracle. The magicians later were able to appear to duplicate the first, but they would have been unable to use deception to imitate the second, since it would have taken far more than a hypnotic suggestion to make a person imagine he had been cured of leprosy (see on Exodus 7:12; 8:23).