出埃及记 7:20

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

摩西和亞倫就這樣行了，就像耶和華所吩咐的；亞倫在法老面前和法老的臣僕面前舉起手杖，擊打河裡的水，河裡的水就都變了血。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
摩 西 、 亚 伦 就 照 耶 和 华 所 吩 咐 的 行 。 亚 伦 在 法 老 和 臣 仆 眼 前 举 杖 击 打 河 里 的 水 ， 河 里 的 水 都 变 作 血 了 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ Then the Lord said to Moses, "The king is being stubborn and refuses to let the people go. ¹⁵ In the morning the king will go out to the Nile River. Go meet him by the edge of the river, and take with you the walking stick that became a snake. ¹⁶ Tell him: The Lord , the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you. He said, ‘Let my people go worship me in the desert.' Until now you have not listened. ¹⁷ This is what the Lord says: ‘This is how you will know that I am the Lord . I will strike the water of the Nile River with this stick in my hand, and the water will change into blood. ¹⁸ Then the fish in the Nile will die, and the river will begin to stink. The Egyptians will not be able to drink the water from the Nile.'" ¹⁹ The Lord said to Moses, "Tell Aaron: ‘Take the walking stick in your hand and stretch your hand over the rivers, canals, ponds, and pools in Egypt.' The water will become blood everywhere in Egypt, both in wooden buckets and in stone jars." ²⁰ So Moses and Aaron did just as the Lord had commanded. In front of the king and his officers, Aaron raised his walking stick and struck the water in the Nile River. So all the water in the Nile changed into blood. ²¹ The fish in the Nile died, and the river began to stink, so the Egyptians could not drink water from it. Blood was everywhere in the land of Egypt. ²² Using their tricks, the magicians of Egypt did the same thing. So the king was stubborn and refused to listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had said. ²³ The king turned and went into his palace and ignored what Moses and Aaron had done.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he lifted: Exodus 17:5, Exodus 17:6, Exodus 17:9-12, Numbers 20:8-12

all the waters: As the Nile was held sacred by the Egyptians, as well as the animals it contained, to which they annually sacrificed a girl, or as others say, both a boy and girl, God might have designed this plague as a punishment for such idolatry and cruelty; and to shew them the baseness of those elements which they reverenced, and the insufficiency of the gods in which they trusted. All the punishments brought upon them bore a strict analogy to their crimes. Exodus 7:17, Exodus 7:18, Psalms 78:44, Psalms 105:29, John 2:9-11, Revelation 8:8

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 4:29 - lay my staff Revelation 8:10 - the fountains Revelation 16:4 - and they

Cross-References

Psalms 104:6
You covered the earth with oceans; the water was above the mountains.

Jeremiah 3:23
It was foolish to worship idols on the hills and on the mountains. Surely the salvation of Israel comes from the Lord our God.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses and Aaron did so, as the Lord commanded,.... Moses delivered the rod to Aaron, who took it and went to the water side:

and he lift up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river; or "in that river" i, the river Nile, on the brink of which Pharaoh then stood:

in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; his nobles and courtiers who tended him in his walk to the water; for this was done before he returned to his palace:

and all the waters that were in the river were turned into blood; not only the face of the waters looked like blood, but they were really turned into it; and not only the surface of the water, but all the water that was in the river, wherever it flowed, and as far as it flowed in the land of Egypt.

i ביאר εν τω ποταμω Sept. "in eo rivo", Junius and Tremellius, Piscator.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

The FIRST plague. The WATERS turned into BLOOD

Verse Exodus 7:20. All the waters - were turned to blood. — Not merely in appearance, but in reality; for these changed waters became corrupt and insalubrious, so that even the fish that were in the river died; and the smell became highly offensive, so that the waters could not be drank; Exodus 7:21.