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Christian Standard Bible ®

Psalms 105:29

He turned their water into bloodand caused their fish to die.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blood;   Thankfulness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Fish;   Nile;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Confessions and Credos;   Salvation;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hallelujah;   Plagues of Egypt;   Psalms;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Nile;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Plagues of Egypt;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
He turned their waters into blood, And killed their fish.
King James Version
He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
English Standard Version
He turned their waters into blood and caused their fish to die.
New Century Version
So he changed their water into blood and made their fish die.
New English Translation
He turned their water into blood, and killed their fish.
Amplified Bible
He turned Egypt's waters into blood And caused their fish to die.
New American Standard Bible
He turned their waters into blood, And caused their fish to die.
World English Bible
He turned their waters into blood, And killed their fish.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He turned their waters into blood, and slewe their fish.
Legacy Standard Bible
He turned their waters into bloodAnd caused their fish to die.
Berean Standard Bible
He turned their waters to blood and caused their fish to die.
Contemporary English Version
God turned their rivers into streams of blood, and the fish all died.
Complete Jewish Bible
He turned their water into blood and caused their fish to die.
Darby Translation
He turned their waters into blood, and caused their fish to die.
Easy-to-Read Version
So he changed the water into blood, and all their fish died.
George Lamsa Translation
He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
Good News Translation
He turned their rivers into blood and killed all their fish.
Lexham English Bible
He turned their waters into blood and it killed their fish.
Literal Translation
He turned their waters into blood and killed their fish.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He turned their waters in to bloude, and slewe their fishe.
American Standard Version
He turned their waters into blood, And slew their fish.
Bible in Basic English
At his word their waters were turned to blood, and he sent death on all their fish.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
King James Version (1611)
Hee turned their waters into blood: and slew their fish.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He turned their waters into blood: and slue their fishe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
English Revised Version
He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He turnede the watris of hem in to blood; and he killide the fischis of hem.
Update Bible Version
He turned their waters into blood, And slew their fish.
Webster's Bible Translation
He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
New King James Version
He turned their waters into blood, And killed their fish.
New Living Translation
He turned their water into blood, poisoning all the fish.
New Life Bible
He changed their water into blood, so their fish died.
New Revised Standard
He turned their waters into blood, and caused their fish to die.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He turned their waters into blood, And so caused their fish to die;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(104-29) He turned their waters into blood, and destroyed their fish.
Revised Standard Version
He turned their waters into blood, and caused their fish to die.
Young's Literal Translation
He hath turned their waters to blood, And putteth to death their fish.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He turned their waters into blood And caused their fish to die.

Contextual Overview

25whose hearts he turned to hate his peopleand to deal deceptively with his servants. 26He sent Moses his servant,and Aaron, whom he had chosen. 27They performed his miraculous signs among them,and wonders in the land of Ham. 28He sent darkness, and it became dark—for did they not defy his commands? 29He turned their water into bloodand caused their fish to die.30Their land was overrun with frogs,even in their royal chambers. 31He spoke, and insects came—gnats throughout their country. 32He gave them hail for rain,and lightning throughout their land. 33He struck their vines and fig treesand shattered the trees of their territory. 34He spoke, and locusts came—young locusts without number.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 78:44, Exodus 7:20, Exodus 7:21, Isaiah 50:2, Ezekiel 29:4, Ezekiel 29:5, Revelation 16:3

Reciprocal: Exodus 7:17 - and they

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He turned their waters into blood,.... With which Egypt abounded; their streams, rivers, ponds, and pools, so that they had no water to drink; a just judgment upon them for shedding the innocent blood of infants, by drowning them in their rivers; this was the first of the ten plagues, Exodus 7:19, with this compare the second and third vials poured out on spiritual Egypt, whereby blood will be given to antichrist, and to the antichristian states, for they are worthy, having shed so much of the blood of the saints, Revelation 16:3.

And slew their fish; which showed that the miracle was real, that the waters were really turned into blood, since the fish could not live in them, as they might if it had been only in appearance; the rivers of Egypt abounded with fish, this was a principal part of their food, and therefore must greatly distress them; see Numbers 11:5.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See an account of these plagues in Exo. 6–11. Compare Psalms 78:43-51. This is mostly a mere enumeration of the plagues in the order in which they occurred, but without, of course, the details of the circumstances attending them. There are no circumstances mentioned here which require particular explanation.


 
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