* he lifted.
# 17:5,6,9-12; Nu 20:8-12|
* all the waters.
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.
# 17,18; Ps 78:44; 105:29; Joh 2:9-11; Re 8:8|
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