Exodus 7:18
New International Version
The fish in the Nile will die, and the river will stink; the Egyptians will not be able to drink its water.’”

New Living Translation
The fish in it will die, and the river will stink. The Egyptians will not be able to drink any water from the Nile.’”

English Standard Version
The fish in the Nile shall die, and the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will grow weary of drinking water from the Nile.”’”

Berean Standard Bible
The fish in the Nile will die, the river will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink its water.’ ”

King James Bible
And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river.

New King James Version
And the fish that are in the river shall die, the river shall stink, and the Egyptians will loathe to drink the water of the river.” ’ ”

New American Standard Bible
Then the fish that are in the Nile will die, the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will no longer be able to drink water from the Nile.”’”

NASB 1995
“The fish that are in the Nile will die, and the Nile will become foul, and the Egyptians will find difficulty in drinking water from the Nile."’”

NASB 1977
“And the fish that are in the Nile will die, and the Nile will become foul; and the Egyptians will find difficulty in drinking water from the Nile.”’”

Legacy Standard Bible
And the fish that are in the Nile will die, and the Nile will become foul, and the Egyptians will be weary of drinking water from the Nile.”’”

Amplified Bible
The fish in the Nile will die, and the Nile will become foul, and the Egyptians will not be able to drink water from the Nile.”’”

Christian Standard Bible
The fish in the Nile will die, the river will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink water from it.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The fish in the Nile will die, the river will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink water from it.”

American Standard Version
And the fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall become foul; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the fish that are in the river will die and the river will stink and the Egyptians will loathe to drink waters from the river.’”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall stink thereupon, and the Egyptians shall not be able to drink water from the river.

Contemporary English Version
The fish will die, the river will stink, and none of you Egyptians will be able to drink the water."

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the fishes that are in the river shall die, and the waters shall be corrupted, and the Egyptians shall be afflicted when they drink the water of the river.

English Revised Version
And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The fish in the Nile will die, and the river will stink. The Egyptians will not be able to drink any water from the Nile.'"

Good News Translation
The fish will die, and the river will stink so much that the Egyptians will not be able to drink from it.'"

International Standard Version
The fish in the Nile River will die and the river will stink. The Egyptians will be unable to drink water from the Nile River. "'"

JPS Tanakh 1917
And the fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall become foul; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river.'

Literal Standard Version
and the fish that [are] in the River die, and the River has stunk, and the Egyptians have been wearied of drinking waters from the River.”

Majority Standard Bible
The fish in the Nile will die, the river will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink its water.’”

New American Bible
The fish in the Nile will die, and the Nile itself will stink so that the Egyptians will be unable to drink water from the Nile.

NET Bible
Fish in the Nile will die, the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink water from the Nile."'"

New Revised Standard Version
The fish in the river shall die, the river itself shall stink, and the Egyptians shall be unable to drink water from the Nile.’”

New Heart English Bible
The fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall become foul; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river."'"

Webster's Bible Translation
And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall be offensive in smell; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river.

World English Bible
The fish that are in the river will die and the river will become foul. The Egyptians will loathe to drink water from the river.”’”

Young's Literal Translation
and the fish that are in the River die, and the River hath stank, and the Egyptians have been wearied of drinking waters from the River.'

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Context
The First Plague: Blood
17This 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. 18The fish in the Nile will die, the river will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink its water.’” 19And 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.”…

Cross References
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.

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.

Isaiah 19:6
The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither.


Treasury of Scripture

And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink of the water of the river.

the fish

Exodus 7:21
And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.

Egyptians.

Exodus 7:24
And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.

Numbers 11:20
But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?

Numbers 21:5
And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.

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














(18) The fish that is in the river shall die.--The natural discoloration of the Nile, whether by red earth or by Cryptogams and Infusoriae, has no pernicious effect at all upon the fish, nor is the water rendered by these discolorations at all unfit for use. The Nile naturally abounds with fish of various kinds; and though to Europeans they have, most of them, an insipid taste, yet, both in ancient and in modern times, the subsistence of the natives has been largely drawn from this source. It was a severe punishment to the Egyptians to be deprived of their fish supply. It was also implied contempt in regard of their religious worship, since at least three species of the Nile fish were sacred--the oxyrhineus, the lepidotus, and the phagrus, or eel. (Herod. ii. 72; Plut. De Ibid. et Osir. vii. 18, 22.)

The river shall stink.--The Nile is said to have sometimes an offensive odour naturally; but the phenomenon is not marked, and can scarcely be that which is here alluded to, when the blood-like waters, laden with the bodies of putrid fish, caused a disgust and horror that were unspeakable.

Verse 18. - The fish... shall die. This would increase the greatness of the calamity, for the Egyptians lived to a very large extent upon fish (Birch, 'Egypt from the Earliest Times,' p. 45), which was taken in the Nile, in the canals, and the Lake Morris (Herod. 2:149). The river shall stink. As Keil and Delitzsch observe, "this seems to indicate putrefaction." The Egyptians shall loathe to drink. The expression is stronger in verse 24, where we find that "they could not drink." We may presume that at first, not supposing that the fluid could really be blood, they tried to drink it, took it into their mouths, and possibly swallowed some, but that very soon they found they could not continue to do so.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The fish
וְהַדָּגָ֧ה (wə·had·dā·ḡāh)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 1710: A fish

in the Nile
בַּיְאֹ֛ר (bay·’ōr)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 2975: Nile -- a channel, a fosse, canal, shaft, the Nile, the Tigris

will die,
תָּמ֖וּת (tā·mūṯ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 4191: To die, to kill

the river
הַיְאֹ֑ר (hay·’ōr)
Article | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 2975: Nile -- a channel, a fosse, canal, shaft, the Nile, the Tigris

will stink,
וּבָאַ֣שׁ (ū·ḇā·’aš)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 887: To smell bad, to be offensive

and the Egyptians
מִצְרַ֔יִם (miṣ·ra·yim)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 4713: Egyptian -- inhabitant of Egypt

will be unable
וְנִלְא֣וּ (wə·nil·’ū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 3811: To tire, to be, disgusted

to drink
לִשְׁתּ֥וֹת (liš·tō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 8354: To imbibe

its
הַיְאֹֽר׃ (hay·’ōr)
Article | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 2975: Nile -- a channel, a fosse, canal, shaft, the Nile, the Tigris

water.’”
מַ֖יִם (ma·yim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen


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