And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
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Gill's Exposition
He sent divers sorts of flies among them,.... This was the fourth plague; see Exo 8:24, the word signifies a "mixture" (f), and the Targum renders it
"a mixture of wild beasts;''
so Josephus (g)…
Barnes' Notes
And had turned their rivers into blood - Exo 7:20. There was properly but one river in Egypt - the Nile. But there were several branches of that river at the mouth; and there were numerous artificial…
The matter and scope of this paragraph are the same with the former, showing what great mercies God had bestowed upon Israel, how provoking they had been, what judgments he had brought upon them for…
Cambridge Bible
And turned their rivers into blood,
And their streams, that they could not drink.
See Exo 7:17 ff. The word for -rivers" (y"ôr) is one specially used of the Nile and its canals.