Exodus 7:20 (KJV)

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And Moses and Aaron did so as the LORD commanded and he lifted up the rod and smote the waters that were in the river in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood

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he lifted. Ex 17:5 Ex 17:6 Ex 17:9-12 Nu 20:8-12

all the waters.As the Nile was held sacred by the Egyptians, as well as the animals it contained, to which they annually sacrificed a girl, or as others say, both a boy and girl, God might have designed this plague as a punishment for such idolatry and cruelty; and to shew them the baseness of those elements which they reverenced, and the insufficiency of the gods in which they trusted. All the punishments brought upon them bore a strict analogy to their crimes. Ex 7:17 Ex 7:18 Ps 78:44 Ps 105:29 Joh 2:9-11 Re 8:8

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