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serve those for a justification of their infidelity who are prejudiced against the light and love of it.
12 For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents:
but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.
13 And he hardened Pharaoh’s heart, that he hearkened not unto
them; as the Lord had said.
The Plague of Blood
Here is the first of the ten plagues, the turning of the water into blood, which was,
1. A dreadful plague, and very grievous. The very sight of such vast rolling streams of blood, pure blood no doubt, florid and high-colored, could not but strike a horror upon people: much more afflictive were the consequences of it. Nothing more common than water: so wisely has Providence ordered it, and so kindly, that that which is so needful and serviceable to the comfort of human life should be cheap, and almost everywhere to be had; but now the Egyptians must either drink blood, or die for thirst.
Fish was much of their food (Nu 11:5), but the changing of the waters was the death of the fish; it was a pestilence in that element (Ex 7:21): The fish died. In the general deluge they escaped, because perhaps they had not then contributed so much to the luxury of man as they have since; but in this particular judgment they perished (Ps 105:29): He slew their fish; and when another destruction of Egypt, long afterwards, is threatened, the disappointment of those that make sluices and ponds for fish is particularly noticed, Isa 19:10. Egypt was a pleasant land, but the noisome stench of dead fish and blood, which by degrees would grow putrid, now rendered it very unpleasant.
2. It was a righteous plague, and justly inflicted upon the Egyptians. For,