Exo. 7:20

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he lifted.

Exod 17:5; Exod 17:6; Exod 17:9-12; Num 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.

Exod 7:17; Exod 7:18; Ps 78:44; Ps 105:29; John 2:9-11; Rev 8:8