Thus says the LORD, “By this you shall know that I am the LORD: behold, with the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water that is in the Nile, and it shall turn into blood.
Water turned to blood strikes horror into the soul, but the justice runs deeper: Egypt made an idol of the Nile, and God justly turned their god into a curse. Whatever creature we worship instead of the Creator, the Lord will either remove from us or make bitter to our taste.
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Commenting on Exodus 7:14-25
Moses holds the rod, but it is the Lord's hand that wields it; by this stroke upon the river, God makes Himself known as Jehovah, supreme over all gods and above Egypt's idol.
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The plague reached everywhere: the streams, the canals, the ponds, the very vessels in their homes. Nothing could humble Egypt's pride like this dishonor done to their national god, and the thirst that followed must have been severe.
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