Exodus 7:19-20
stretch <05186> [stretch.]
reservoirs <04723> [their pools. Heb. gathering of their waters.]
raised <07311> [he lifted.]
water ................... water <04325> [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.
Numbers 20:8-11
staff <04294> [the rod.]
speak <01696> [speak.]
bring <03318> [bring forth.]
bring <03318> [we fetch.]
struck <05221> [smote.]
water <04325> [the water.]
