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First published 500 years ago as the “Rabbinic Bible,” the biblical commentaries known as the Miqra’ot Gedolot have inspired and educated generations of Hebrew readers. With this edition, the voices of Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Nachmanides, Rashbam, and other medieval commentators come alive once more, speaking in a contemporary English translation annotated and explicated for lay readers. Each page of...

ABARBANEL’S QUESTIONS ♦ Was all the water in Egypt turned to blood (v. 19), or just the water of the Nile (v. 20)? ADDITIONAL COMMENTS The Egyptians could not drink water. Because it was polluted by the corpses of the fish killed when it turned to blood. But it had already turned back into water. This is why there was water for the magicians to turn into blood (v. 22) and why Pharaoh did not ask them to turn it back into water (Bekhor Shor). RASHI Spells. The
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