Exodus 7:24 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁴ And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ And all the Egyptians dug round about the river for water to drink, for they could not drink the water of the [Nile].

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.

Common English Bible

²⁴ Meanwhile, all the Egyptians had to dig for drinking water along the banks of the Nile River, because they couldn’t drink the water of the Nile itself.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ Then all the Egyptians dug along the borders of the river for water to drink. For they were not able to drink from the water of the river.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ And all the Egyptians dug round about the river for water to drink: for they could not drink of the water of the river.

Exodus 7:24 Cross References

Exodus 7:18

And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river.

Exodus 7:23

And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he lay even this to heart.

Exodus 7:25

And seven days were fulfilled, after that the LORD had smitten the river.