¹⁷‘Thus says the Lord, “^aBy this you shall know that I am the Lord: behold, I will strike ¹the water that is in the Nile with the staff that is in my hand, and ^bit will be turned to blood.

¹⁸“^aThe fish that are in the Nile will die, and the Nile will ¹become foul, and the Egyptians will ²^bfind difficulty in drinking water from the Nile.” ’ ”

¹⁹Then the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and ^astretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their ¹streams, 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 ¹^athe staff and struck the water that was in the Nile, in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, and ^ball the water that was in the Nile was turned to blood.

²¹The fish that were in the Nile died, and the Nile ¹became foul, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. And the blood was through all the land of Egypt.

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Footnotes

1Lit upon the waters
1I.e. have a bad smell
2Or be weary of
1Or canals
1Lit with the staff
1I.e. had a bad smell

Cross references

a Ex 5:2; 7:5; 10:2; Ps 9:16; Ezek 25:17
b Ex 4:9; 7:20; Rev 11:6; 16:4, 6
a Ex 7:21
b Ex 7:24
a Ex 8:5, 6, 16; 9:22; 10:12, 21; 14:21, 26
a Ex 17:5
b Ps 78:44; 105:29