The First Plague: Water Turned to Blood. Thus says the LORD, “By this you shall know and recognize and acknowledge that I am the LORD: look, with the staff in my hand I will strike the water in the Nile, and it shall be turned to blood. Exo 7:17
INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
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ISRAEL IN EGYPT, Exodus 1:8-12:36
15. What was the first judgment upon Egypt and what was its effect?
THE FIRST PLAGUE: WATER TURNED TO BLOOD
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is hard; he refuses to let the people go.
Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he is going out to the water, and wait for him on the bank of the Nile; and you shall take in your hand the staff that was turned into a serpent.
You shall say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, “Let My people go, so that they may serve Me in the wilderness. But behold, you have not listened until now.”
Thus says the LORD, “By this you shall know and recognize and acknowledge that I am the LORD: look, with the staff in my hand I will strike the water in the Nile, and it shall be turned to blood.
The fish in the Nile will die, and the Nile will become foul, and the Egyptians will not be able to drink water from the Nile.”‘”
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, over their pools, and over all their reservoirs of water, so that they may become blood; and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, in containers both of wood and of stone.'”
So Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded; Aaron lifted up the staff and struck the waters in the Nile, in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, and all the water that was in the Nile was turned into blood.
The fish in the Nile died, and the river became foul smelling, and the Egyptians could not drink its water, and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.
But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts and enchantments; so Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he did not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.
Then Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he did not take even this [divine sign] to heart.
So all the Egyptians dug near the river for water to drink, because they could not drink the water of the Nile.
Seven days passed after the LORD had struck the Nile.
Comments by
F.B.Meyer
On
Exodus 7:14-25
SIGN OF THE WATERS TURNED TO BLOOD
Satan will mimic God’s work up to a point. We are told that Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses; but even then Moses’ rod swallowed their rods. They were defeated in their own realm, that Pharaoh’s faith in them might be shaken. But it was in their predictions of what was coming that the Hebrew brethren specially attested their superiority. The sky was roseate with the blush of dawn, as Pharaoh, accompanied by his court, came to perform his customary ablutions or to worship at the brink of the Nile. Moses met him with the peremptory summons, “Let my people go…” and in accordance with his prediction the Nile became as blood. But since by their clever legerdemain the magicians appeared able to do as much, his heart was hardened-i.e., “he did not set his heart to it.” In other words, he would not consider the message sent to him by the hand of God’s accredited messengers.
Comments by
WILLIAM MACDONALD
Believers Bible Commentary
On
Exodus 7:14-25
IV. MOSES’ CONFRONTATIONS WITH PHARAOH (5:1–7:13)
V. THE FIRST NINE PLAGUES (7:14–10:29)
A. The First Plague—The Nile Turned to Blood (7:14-25)
7:14-18 The LORD told Moses to have a personal confrontation with Pharaoh down by the riverside when his majesty went out to the water. (He was probably bathing in the “sacred” Nile.) Moses was to warn the king that the fish would die, the river would stink and become loathsome to the Egyptians after it was turned to blood by the rod in Moses’ hand.
7:19-25 Moses and Aaron did as God commanded. They stretched out the rod over the waters of Egypt. The waters of the Nile and of the land of Egypt were turned to blood, the fish . . . died, and the river stank. The magicians duplicated this miracle with water found elsewhere than in the Nile. This probably encouraged Pharaoh to resist Moses’ demands to let the people go. During the seven days when the Nile was polluted, the people obtained water by digging wells.
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