Exode 7:20

Louis Segond

Moïse et Aaron firent ce que l'Eternel avait ordonné. Aaron leva la verge, et il frappa les eaux qui étaient dans le fleuve, sous les yeux de Pharaon et sous les yeux de ses serviteurs; et toutes les eaux du fleuve furent changées en sang.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Moïse et Aaron firent donc ainsi, comme l'Éternel l'avait commandé. Et Aaron leva la verge, et frappa les eaux qui étaient dans le fleuve, aux yeux de Pharaon et aux yeux de ses serviteurs; et toutes les eaux qui étaient dans le fleuve furent changées en sang.

Darby's French Translation
Et Moïse et Aaron firent ainsi, selon que l'Éternel l'avait commandé. Et il leva la verge, et frappa les eaux qui étaient dans le fleuve, aux yeux du Pharaon et aux yeux de ses serviteurs: et toutes les eaux qui étaient dans le fleuve furent changées en sang;

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Moïse donc et Aaron firent selon que l'Eternel avait commandé. Et [Aaron] ayant levé la verge, en frappa les eaux du fleuve, Pharaon et ses serviteurs le voyant; et toutes les eaux du fleuve furent changées en sang.

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

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.