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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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But if they do not believe these two signs or listen to you, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. The water you take from the river will become blood(A) on the ground.”

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44 God turned their rivers to blood;
    their streams they could not drink.

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44 He turned their river into blood;(A)
    they could not drink from their streams.

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29 He turned their waters into blood
    and killed their fish.

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29 He turned their waters into blood,(A)
    causing their fish to die.(B)

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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

Instead of a river’s[a] perennial source,
    troubled with impure blood(B)
    as a rebuke to the decree for the slaying of infants,
You gave them abundant water beyond their hope,

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Footnotes

  1. 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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