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he lifted: Exo 17:5, Exo 17:6, Exo 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. Exo 7:17, Exo 7:18; Psa 78:44, Psa 105:29; Joh 2:9-11; Rev 8:8 Exodus 7:21
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