Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 7

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Exodus 7 . 1 , Moses and Aaron are encouraged to go again to Pharaoh; Exodus 7 . 7 , Their age; Exodus 7 . 8 , Aaron’s rod is turned into a serpent; Exodus 7 . 11 , The sorcerers do the like; but their rods are swallowed up by Aaron’s; Exodus 7 . 13 , Pharaoh’s heart is hardened; Exodus 7 . 14 , God’s message to Pharaoh; Exodus 7 . 19 , The river is turned into blood; and the consequent distress of the Egyptians.

Exodus 7:1

The LORD answered Moses, "See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.

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Exodus 7:2

You are to speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his land.

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Exodus 7:3

But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and though I will multiply My signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,

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Exodus 7:4

Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will lay My hand on Egypt, and by mighty acts of judgment I will bring the divisions of My people the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.

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Exodus 7:5

And the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD, when I stretch out My hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them.”

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Exodus 7:6

So Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded them.

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Exodus 7:7

Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.

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Exodus 7:9

“When Pharaoh tells you, ‘Perform a miracle,’ you are to say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,’ and it will become a serpent.”

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Exodus 7:10

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the LORD had commanded. Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a serpent.

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Exodus 7:11

But Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers and magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same things by their magic arts.

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sorcerers Mechashshaphim , probably from the Arabic kashapha , to discover , reveal , signifies diviners , or those who pretended to reveal futurity , to discover things lost , or to find hidden treasures.

enchantments By the word lahatim , from lahat , to burn , may be meant such incantations as required lustral fires , fumigations , etc.

Exodus 7:12

Each one threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. But Aaron's staff swallowed up the other staffs.

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Exodus 7:13

Still, Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.

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Exodus 7:14

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is unyielding; he refuses to let the people go.

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Exodus 7:15

Go to Pharaoh in the morning as you see him walking out to the water. Wait on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake.

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Exodus 7:16

Then say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to tell you: Let My people go, so that they may worship Me in the wilderness. But you have not listened until now.

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Exodus 7:17

This is what the LORD says: By this you will know that I am the LORD. Behold, with the staff in my hand I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will turn to blood.

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Exodus 7:18

The fish in the Nile will die, the river will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink its water.'"

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Egyptians "The water of Egypt ," says Abbe Mascrier , "is so delicious , that one would not wish the heat to be less , or to be delivered from the sensation of thirst. The Turks find it so exquisite , that they excite themselves to drink of it by eating salt." "A person ," adds Mr. Harmer , "who never before heard of the deliciousness of the Nile water , and of the large quantities which on that account are drunk of it , will , I am sure , find an energy in those words of Moses to Pharaoh , the Egyptians shall loathe to drink of the water of the river , which he never did before."

Exodus 7:19

And the LORD said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over their rivers and canals and ponds and reservoirs—that they may become blood.' There will be blood throughout the land of Egypt, even in the vessels of wood and stone."

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Exodus 7:20

Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded; in the presence of Pharaoh and his officials, Aaron raised the staff and struck the water of the Nile, and all the water was turned to blood.

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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

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Exodus 7:21

The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water. And there was blood throughout the land of Egypt.

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  • Exodus 7:18
  • Revelation 8:9 The first miracle of Christ turned water into wine , the first plague upon Egypt turned all their water into blood

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Exodus 7:22

But the magicians of Egypt did the same things by their magic arts. So Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.

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Exodus 7:23

Instead, Pharaoh turned around, went into his palace, and did not take any of this to heart.

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Exodus 7:24

So all the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they could not drink the water from the river.

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Exodus 7:25

And seven full days passed after the LORD had struck the Nile.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge is the classical cross-reference layer — centuries of catchword parallels beneath the site’s quotations, allusions, and echoes. Every reference above also flows into the wider web of connections.

In the wider web7 threads
Intertextuality Pairs
Allusions Acts 7:30 → Exodus 7:7, 2 Timothy 3:8 → Exodus 7:11, Psalm 105:26 → Exodus 7, Psalm 105:26-36 → Exodus 7, Psalm 78:44 → Exodus 7, Psalm 78:44-51 → Exodus 7
Trajectories
Plagues of Egypt (Judgment on False Gods)
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