2 Mose 7:20

Lutherbibel

Mose und Aaron taten, wie ihnen der HERR geboten hatte, und er hob den Stab auf und schlug ins Wasser, das im Strom war, vor Pharao und seinen Knechten. Und alles Wasser ward in Blut verwandelt.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Mose und Aaron taten, wie ihnen der Herr geboten hatte. Und er hob den Stab auf und schlug vor dem Pharao und seinen Knechten das Wasser, das im Strom war; da wurde alles Wasser im Nil in Blut verwandelt.

Elberfelder Bibel (1905)
Und Mose und Aaron taten also, wie Jehova geboten hatte; und er erhob den Stab und schlug das Wasser, das im Strome war, vor den Augen des Pharao und vor den Augen seiner Knechte. Da wurde alles Wasser, das im Strome war, in Blut verwandelt;

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.