Exodus 7
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Exodus 7:14-25

14Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is 1stubborn; he refuses to let the people go. 15Go to Pharaoh in the morning 2as 3he is going out to the water, and station yourself to meet him on the bank of the Nile; and you shall take in your hand 4the staff that was turned into a serpent. 165You shall say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, “6Let My people go, that they may serve Me in the wilderness. But behold, you have not listened until now.” 17Thus says the Lord, “7By this you shall know that I am the Lord: behold, I will strike 8the water that is in the Nile with the staff that is in my hand, and 9it will be turned to blood. 1810The fish that are in the Nile will die, and the Nile will 11become foul, and the Egyptians will 1213find difficulty in drinking water from the Nile.”’” 19Then the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and 14stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their 15streams, and over their pools, and over all their reservoirs of water, that they may become blood; and there will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’”

20So Moses and Aaron did even as the Lord had commanded. And he lifted up 1617the staff and struck the water that was in the Nile, in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, and 18all the water that was in the Nile was turned to blood. 21The fish that were in the Nile died, and the Nile 19became foul, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. And the blood was through all the land of Egypt. 2220But the 21magicians of Egypt did 22the same with their secret arts; and Pharaoh’s heart was 23hardened, and he did not listen to them, as the Lord had said. 23Then Pharaoh turned and went into his house 24with no concern even for this. 24So all the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink of the water of the Nile. 25Seven days 25passed after the Lord had struck the Nile.

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Notes

  1. 1. Exodus 7:14 Or hard; lit heavy ↩
  2. 2. Exodus 7:15 Lit behold ↩
  3. 3. Exodus 7:15 Ex 2:5; 8:20 ↩
  4. 4. Exodus 7:15 Ex 4:2, 3; 7:10 ↩
  5. 5. Exodus 7:16 Ex 3:13, 18; 4:22; 5:1 ↩
  6. 6. Exodus 7:16 Ex 4:23; 5:1, 3 ↩
  7. 7. Exodus 7:17 Ex 5:2; 7:5; 10:2; Ps 9:16; Ezek 25:17 ↩
  8. 8. Exodus 7:17 Lit upon the waters ↩
  9. 9. Exodus 7:17 Ex 4:9; 7:20; Rev 11:6; 16:4, 6 ↩
  10. 10. Exodus 7:18 Ex 7:21 ↩
  11. 11. Exodus 7:18 I.e. have a bad smell ↩
  12. 12. Exodus 7:18 Or be weary of ↩
  13. 13. Exodus 7:18 Ex 7:24 ↩
  14. 14. Exodus 7:19 Ex 8:5, 6, 16; 9:22; 10:12, 21; 14:21, 26 ↩
  15. 15. Exodus 7:19 Or canals ↩
  16. 16. Exodus 7:20 Lit with the staff ↩
  17. 17. Exodus 7:20 Ex 17:5 ↩
  18. 18. Exodus 7:20 Ps 78:44; 105:29 ↩
  19. 19. Exodus 7:21 I.e. had a bad smell ↩
  20. 20. Exodus 7:22 Ex 7:11; 8:7 ↩
  21. 21. Exodus 7:22 Or soothsayer priests ↩
  22. 22. Exodus 7:22 Lit thus ↩
  23. 23. Exodus 7:22 Lit strong ↩
  24. 24. Exodus 7:23 Lit and he did not set his heart even to this ↩
  25. 25. Exodus 7:25 Lit were fulfilled ↩

Commentaries on Exodus 7

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