Exodus 4:9
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9 And if they do not believe even these two signs and do not listen to you, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry land. The water you take from the Nile will become blood on the dry land.(A)
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Psalm 78:44
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
44 God turned their rivers to blood;
their streams they could not drink.
Psalm 105:29
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
29 He turned their waters into blood
and killed their fish.
Wisdom 11:5-7
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
5 For by the things through which their foes were punished
they in their need were benefited.(A)
First Example: Water Punishes the Egyptians and Benefits the Israelites
6 Instead of a river’s[a] perennial source,
troubled with impure blood(B)
7 as a rebuke to the decree for the slaying of infants,
You gave them abundant water beyond their hope,
Footnotes
- 11:6–8 River: the Nile; the contrast is between the first plague of Egypt (Ex 7:17–24) and the water drawn from the rock in Horeb (Ex 17:5–7; Nm 20:8–11).
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