Exodus 7:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ and the fish in the river died. The river stank so that the Egyptians could not drink its water, and there was blood throughout the whole land of Egypt.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ And the fish in the river died; and the river became foul smelling, and the Egyptians could not drink its water, and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ And the fish that were in the river died; and the river became foul, and the Egyptians could not drink water from the river; and the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt.

Common English Bible

²¹ The fish in the Nile died, and the Nile began to stink so that the Egyptians couldn’t drink water from the Nile. There was blood all over the land of Egypt.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ And the fishes that were in the river died, and the river was polluted, and the Egyptians were not able to drink the water of the river, and there was blood throughout the entire land of Egypt.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ And the fishes that were in the river died: and the river corrupted, and the Egyptians could not drink the water of the river: and there was blood in all the land of Egypt.

Exodus 7:21 Cross References

Psalm 105:29

He turned their waters into blood and caused their fish to die.

Exodus 7:18

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

Exodus 7:20

Moses and Aaron did just as the Lord commanded. In the sight of Pharaoh and of his officials he lifted up the staff and struck the water in the Nile; all the water in the river was turned into blood,

Exodus 7:22

But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts; so Pharaoh’s heart remained hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.

Exodus 8:14

And they gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.

Isaiah 19:8

Those who fish will mourn; all who cast hooks in the Nile will lament, and those who spread nets on the water will languish.

Revelation 8:9

A third of the sea became blood, a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.