Exodus 7:18

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Fish in the Nile will die, the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink water from the Nile.”’”

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 7:24 : 24 All the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they could not drink the water of the Nile.
  • Exod 7:21 : 21 When the fish that were in the Nile died, the Nile began to stink, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. There was blood everywhere in the land of Egypt!
  • Num 11:20 : 20 but a whole month, until it comes out your nostrils and makes you sick, because you have despised the LORD who is among you and have wept before him, saying,“Why did we ever come out of Egypt?”’”
  • Num 21:5 : 5 And the people spoke against God and against Moses,“Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness, for there is no bread or water, and we detest this worthless food.”

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  • Exod 7:19-22
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    92%

    19Then the LORD said to Moses,“Tell Aaron,‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over Egypt’s waters– over their rivers, over their canals, over their ponds, and over all their reservoirs– so that it becomes blood.’ There will be blood everywhere in the land of Egypt, even in wooden and stone containers.”

    20Moses and Aaron did so, just as the LORD had commanded. He raised the staff and struck the water that was in the Nile right before the eyes of Pharaoh and his servants, and all the water that was in the Nile was turned to blood.

    21When the fish that were in the Nile died, the Nile began to stink, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. There was blood everywhere in the land of Egypt!

    22But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts, and so Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, and he refused to listen to Moses and Aaron– just as the LORD had predicted.

  • Exod 7:17
    83%

    17This is what the LORD has said:“By this you will know that I am the LORD: I am going to strike the water of the Nile with the staff that is in my hand, and it will be turned into blood.

  • Exod 7:24-25
    2 verses
    80%

    24All the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they could not drink the water of the Nile.

    25The Second Blow: Frogs Seven full days passed after the LORD struck the Nile.

  • Ps 78:44
    78%

    44He turned their rivers into blood, and they could not drink from their streams.

  • Isa 19:5-8
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    5The water of the sea will be dried up, and the river will dry up and be empty.

    6The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and then dry up; the bulrushes and reeds will decay,

    7along with the plants by the mouth of the river. All the cultivated land near the river will turn to dust and be blown away.

    8The fishermen will mourn and lament, all those who cast a fishhook into the river, and those who spread out a net on the water’s surface will grieve.

  • Isa 11:15
    77%

    15The LORD will divide the gulf of the Egyptian Sea; he will wave his hand over the Euphrates River and send a strong wind, he will turn it into seven dried-up streams, and enable them to walk across in their sandals.

  • Ps 105:29
    76%

    29He turned their water into blood, and killed their fish.

  • Isa 19:10
    75%

    10Those who make cloth will be demoralized; all the hired workers will be depressed.

  • Ezek 29:3-5
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    74%

    3Tell them,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘Look, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster lying in the midst of its waterways, who has said,“My Nile is my own, I made it for myself.”

    4I will put hooks in your jaws and stick the fish of your waterways to your scales. I will haul you up from the midst of your waterways, and all the fish of your waterways will stick to your scales.

    5I will leave you in the wilderness, you and all the fish of your waterways; you will fall in the open field and will not be gathered up or collected. I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the skies.

  • Ezek 47:8-9
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    8He said to me,“These waters go out toward the eastern region and flow down into the rift valley; when they enter the Dead Sea, where the sea is stagnant, the waters become fresh.

    9Every living creature which swarms where the river flows will live; there will be many fish, for these waters flow there. It will become fresh and everything will live where the river flows.

  • Ezek 29:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9The land of Egypt will become a desolate ruin. Then they will know that I am the LORD. Because he said,“The Nile is mine and I made it,”

    10I am against you and your waterways. I will turn the land of Egypt into an utter desolate ruin from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border with Ethiopia.

  • Exod 8:2-7
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    2But if you refuse to release them, then I am going to plague all your territory with frogs.

    3The Nile will swarm with frogs, and they will come up and go into your house, in your bedroom, and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and your kneading troughs.

    4Frogs will come up against you, your people, and all your servants.”’”

    5The LORD spoke to Moses,“Tell Aaron,‘Extend your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the canals, and over the ponds, and bring the frogs up over the land of Egypt.’”

    6So Aaron extended his hand over the waters of Egypt, and frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.

    7The magicians did the same with their secret arts and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt too.

  • Jer 46:8
    73%

    8Egypt rises like the Nile, like its streams turbulent at flood stage. Egypt said,‘I will arise and cover the earth. I will destroy cities and the people who inhabit them.’

  • Exod 8:13-14
    2 verses
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    13The LORD did as Moses asked– the frogs died out of the houses, the villages, and the fields.

    14The Egyptians piled them in countless heaps, and the land stank.

  • Exod 8:11
    73%

    11The frogs will depart from you, your houses, your servants, and your people; they will be left only in the Nile.”

  • Exod 4:9
    73%

    9And if they do not believe even these two signs or listen to you, then take some water from the Nile and pour it out on the dry ground. The water you take out of the Nile will become blood on the dry ground.”

  • Ezek 32:2
    73%

    2“Son of man, sing a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him:“‘You were like a lion among the nations, but you are a monster in the seas; you thrash about in your streams, stir up the water with your feet, and muddy your streams.

  • Exod 7:15
    72%

    15Go to Pharaoh in the morning when he goes out to the water. Position yourself to meet him by the edge of the Nile, and take in your hand the staff that was turned into a snake.

  • Jer 42:17
    72%

    17All the people who are determined to go and settle in Egypt will die from war, starvation, or disease. No one will survive or escape the disaster I will bring on them.’

  • Lev 11:10
    72%

    10But any creatures that do not have both fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the streams, from all the swarming things of the water and from all the living creatures that are in the water, are detestable to you.

  • Zech 10:11
    72%

    11The LORD will cross the sea of storms and will calm its turbulence. The depths of the Nile will dry up, the pride of Assyria will be humbled, and the domination of Egypt will be no more.

  • Exod 8:9
    72%

    9Moses said to Pharaoh,“You may have the honor over me– when shall I pray for you, your servants, and your people, for the frogs to be removed from you and your houses, so that they will be left only in the Nile?”

  • Ezek 30:12
    71%

    12I will dry up the waterways and hand the land over to evil men. I will make the land and everything in it desolate by the hand of foreigners. I, the LORD, have spoken!

  • Hos 4:3
    71%

    3Therefore the land will mourn, and all its inhabitants will perish. The wild animals, the birds of the sky, and even the fish in the sea will perish.

  • Ezek 32:14
    71%

    14Then I will make their waters calm, and will make their streams flow like olive oil, declares the Sovereign LORD.

  • Exod 8:24
    70%

    24The LORD did so; a thick swarm of flies came into Pharaoh’s house and into the houses of his servants, and throughout the whole land of Egypt the land was ruined because of the swarms of flies.

  • Amos 8:8
    70%

    8Because of this the earth will quake, and all who live in it will mourn. The whole earth will rise like the River Nile, it will surge upward and then grow calm, like the Nile in Egypt.

  • Jer 44:13
    70%

    13I will punish those who live in the land of Egypt with war, starvation, and disease just as I punished Jerusalem.

  • Rev 16:4
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    4Then the third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and the springs of water, and they turned into blood.

  • Exod 7:4
    70%

    4Pharaoh will not listen to you. I will reach into Egypt and bring out my regiments, my people the Israelites, from the land of Egypt with great acts of judgment.