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Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, `Take your rod, and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood; and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.`"
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God's Comprehensive Judgment
Commentators explain that this plague was meticulously comprehensive. It affected not only the Nile but all its branches, canals, pools, and even water already drawn and stored in household vessels. This demonstrates God's absolute sovereignty and that no part of creation is outside His reach when He enacts judgment.
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Exodus
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Albert Barnes
On Exodus 7:19
18th Century
Theologian
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
On Exodus 7:14–21
19th Century
Bishop
THE FIRST PLAGUE.
The water turned to blood. —Moses had already been empowered to turn water into…
John Calvin
On Exodus 7:19
16th Century
Theologian
And the Lord spoke to Moses. This is the more extended narrative of which I spoke. Moses mentions nothing different from what happened bef…
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John Gill
On Exodus 7:19
17th Century
Pastor
And the Lord spoke unto Moses
Pharaoh still being obstinate, and refusing to let the people go:
s…
Matthew Henry
On Exodus 7:14–25
17th Century
Minister
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…