Then the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and extend your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, over their pools, and over all their reservoirs of water, so that they may become blood; and there will be blood through all the land of Egypt, both in containers of wood and in containers of stone.’ ”
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The “streams” mean the natural branches of the Nile in Lower Egypt. The word “rivers” should more accurately be “canals”; they were very extensive,…
Charles Ellicott
CharlesEllicott
THE FIRST PLAGUE.
The water turned to blood. —Moses had already been empowered to turn water into…
John Calvin
JohnCalvin
And the Lord spoke to Moses. This is the more extended narrative of which I spoke. Moses mentions nothing different from what happened bef…
John Gill
JohnGill
And the Lord spoke unto Moses
Pharaoh still being obstinate, and refusing to let the people go:
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Matthew Henry
MatthewHenry
Here is the first of the ten plagues: the turning of the water into blood. It was a dreadful plague. The sight of such vast, rolling streams of blo…
Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes