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It will happen, if they will not believe even these two signs, neither listen to your voice, that you shall take of the water of the river, and pour it on the dry land. The water which you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land."
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A Sign of Things to Come
Commentators explain that this third sign was a prophetic warning. Turning the life-giving water of the Nile into blood foreshadowed the future plagues and the transformation of Egypt's prosperity into calamity. It was a small-scale demonstration of the judgment God would bring upon the nation.
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Exodus
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19th Century
Anglican
Shall become blood. —The verb is repeated in the Hebrew, which intensifies the assertion. The English equivalent of the phrase used would …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs Performed be…
Presbyterian
Moses objects that the people would not take his word unless he showed them some sign. God gives him power to work miracles.
But those who a…
