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Exodus 7:14-25

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The First Plague: Water Turned to Blood

14 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is hardened; he refuses to let the people go.
15 1Go to Pharaoh in the morning, as he is going out to the water. Stand on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand 2the staff that turned into a 3serpent.
16 And you shall say to him, 'The 4LORD, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, "Let my people go, 5that they may serve me in the wilderness. But so far, you have not obeyed."
17 Thus says the LORD, "By this 6you 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 7it shall turn into blood.
18 The fish in the Nile shall die, and the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will 8grow weary of drinking water from the Nile."'"
19 And the LORD said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and 9stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, their canals, and their ponds, and all their pools of water, so that they may become blood, and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, even in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.'"
20 Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded. In the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants he 10lifted up the staff and struck the water in the Nile, and all the 11water in the Nile turned into blood.
21 And the fish in the Nile died, and the Nile stank, so that the Egyptians 12could not drink water from the Nile. There was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.
22 But 13the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts. So 14Pharaoh's heart remained hardened, and he would not listen to them, as 15the LORD had said.
23 Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he did not take even this to heart.
24 And all the Egyptians dug along the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink the water of the Nile.
25 Seven full days passed after the LORD had struck the Nile.
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Exodus 7:14-25 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 7

Moses and Aaron are ordered to go to Pharaoh, and require the dismission of the people of Israel, but they are told before hand that Pharaoh's heart would be hardened, and would refuse to let them go, until the hand of the Lord was stretched out, and great judgments were brought down upon, Egypt, and then they should come forth, Ex 7:1-5, which orders Moses and Aaron obeyed, and their age is observed, when this was done, Ex 7:6,7 and they are bid to work a miracle, when Pharaoh should demand one, by turning a rod into a serpent, which they did; but Pharaoh's magicians doing the same in appearance, his heart was hardened, Ex 7:8-14 and then they are directed to meet him at the river, and require the same as before; and if he refused, to smite the waters of the river with the rod, and turn them into blood, which they did, Ex 7:15-21, but Pharaoh's magicians doing the same by enchantments, he did not regard it, though the plague lasted seven days, Ex 7:22-25.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 15

  • 1. Exodus 8:20; Exodus 9:13
  • 2. Exodus 4:2, 17; Exodus 17:5
  • 3. Exodus 4:3
  • 4. Exodus 3:18; Exodus 5:3; Exodus 9:1, 13
  • 5. Exodus 3:12, 18; Exodus 5:1, 3
  • 6. ver. 5
  • 7. Exodus 4:9; [Revelation 16:4]
  • 8. ver. 21, 24
  • 9. Exodus 8:5, 6, 16, 17; Exodus 9:22; Exodus 10:12, 21; Exodus 14:16, 21, 26
  • 10. Exodus 17:9
  • 11. Psalms 78:44; Psalms 105:29
  • 12. ver. 18, 24
  • 13. ver. 11
  • 14. ver. 13
  • 15. ver. 3, 4
The English Standard Version is published with the permission of Good News Publishers.