Exo 7:20 | TSK | e4.org | he lifted , ; 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. ; , ; ;

‏ Exodus 7:20

he lifted Exod 17:5-6, Exod 17:9-12; Num 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. Exod 7:17-18; Ps 78:44, Ps 105:29; John 2:9-11; Rev 8:8