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. ²¹ The fish that were in the Nile died, and the Nile ^[f]became foul, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. And the blood was through all the land of Egypt. ^22 (H)But the ^[g]magicians of Egypt did ^[h]the same with their secret arts; and Pharaoh’s heart was ^[i]hardened, and he did not listen to them, as the Lord had said. ²³ Then Pharaoh turned and went into his house ^[j]with no concern even for this. ²⁴ So all the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink of the water of the Nile. ²⁵ Seven days ^[k]passed after the Lord had struck the Nile.

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.

³ The second angel poured out his bowl ^(A)into the sea, and it became blood like that of a dead man; and every living ^[a]thing in the sea died.