שמות 7:24

Hebrew Modern Translation

ויחפרו כל מצרים סביבת היאר מים לשתות כי לא יכלו לשתת ממימי היאר׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
ויחפרו כל מצרים סביבת היאר מים לשתות כי לא יכלו לשתת ממימי היאר

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
וַיַּחְפְּר֧וּ כָל־מִצְרַ֛יִם סְבִיבֹ֥ת הַיְאֹ֖ר מַ֣יִם לִשְׁתֹּ֑ות כִּ֣י לֹ֤א יָֽכְלוּ֙ לִשְׁתֹּ֔ת מִמֵּימֵ֖י הַיְאֹֽר ׃

Westminster Leningrad Codex
וַיַּחְפְּרוּ כָל־מִצְרַיִם סְבִיבֹת הַיְאֹר מַיִם לִשְׁתּוֹת כִּי לֹא יָֽכְלוּ לִשְׁתֹּת מִמֵּימֵי הַיְאֹֽר ׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

for they: Exodus 7:18-21

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And all the Egyptians digged round about the river,.... On each side of it, in order to get clear water; and Aben Ezra thinks the Hebrews also, who were affected with this, and the two following plagues, the frogs and lice: but it is much more reasonable to conclude that they were free from them all. This they did

for water to drink: for there was none in the river, streams, ponds and pools, or in vessels, in which they used to reserve it, and therefore could come at none but by digging; and whether they obtained any in that way is not said:

for they could not drink of the waters of the river; it being turned into blood, and stunk so exceedingly; and though they might strain it, and make it in some measure, drinkable, and might make use of the juice of herbs, and other things, to extinguish their thirst, and the better sort might have a stock of wine, yet multitudes must be greatly distressed, and many perish, as Philo n the Jew says they did.

n De Vita Mosis, l. 1. p. 617.