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"Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he is going out to the water, and stationyourself to meet him on the bank of the Nile; and you shall take in your hand the staff that was turned into a serpent.
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"You shall say to him, 'The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, "Let My peoplego, that they may serve Me in the wilderness. But behold, you have not listeneduntilnow."
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'Thussays the LORD, "By this you shall know that I am the LORD: behold, I will strike the water that is in the Nile with the staff that is in my hand, and it will be turned to blood.
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Then the LORDsaid to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and stretch out your handover the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and overall their reservoirs of water, that they may becomeblood; and there will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.' "
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So Moses and Aarondideven as the LORD had commanded. And he lifted up the staff and struck the water that was in the Nile, in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, and all the water that was in the Nile was turned to blood.
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The fish that were in the Niledied, and the Nilebecamefoul, so that the Egyptianscould not drinkwater from the Nile. And the blood was through all the land of Egypt.