¹⁷ Thus says the Lord, “^(A)By this you shall know that I am the Lord: behold, I will strike ^[a]the water that is in the Nile with the staff that is in my hand, and ^(B)it will be turned to blood. ^18 (C)The fish that are in the Nile will die, and the Nile will ^[b]become foul, and the Egyptians will ^[c](D)find difficulty in drinking water from the Nile.”’” ¹⁹ Then the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and ^(E)stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their ^[d]streams, and over their pools, and over all their reservoirs of water, that they may become blood; and there will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’”

²⁰ So Moses and Aaron did even as the Lord had commanded. And he lifted up ^[e](F)the staff and struck the water that was in the Nile, in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, and ^(G)all the water that was in the Nile was turned to blood.

⁶ These have the power to ^(A)shut up the sky, so that rain will not fall during ^(B)the days of their prophesying; and they have power over the waters to ^(C)turn them into blood, and ^(D)to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.