THEOSISWlastow G.K.
Many scholars interpret this passage to signify that for a period of seven days, the river was struck, rendering its waters undrinkable, and the second judgment occurred directly after the first.
Exodus 7:25Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And seven days were fully ended, after that the Lord struck the river.
וַיִּמָּלֵ֖א שִׁבְעַ֣ת יָמִ֑ים אַחֲרֵ֥י הַכּוֹת־יְהוָ֖ה אֶת־הַיְאֹֽר׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ex 10:23No man saw his brother, nor moved himself out of the place where he was: but wheresoever the children of Israel dwelt, there was light.
- Ex 8:9And Moses said to Pharao: Set me a time when I shall pray for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, that the frogs may be driven away from thee and from thy house, and from thy servants, and from thy people; and may remain only in the river.
- Ex 8:10And he answered: To morrow. But he said: I will do according to thy word; that thou mayest know that there is none like to the Lord our God.
- 2 Sam 24:13And when Gad was come to David, he told him, saying: Either seven years of famine shall come to thee in thy land: or thou shalt flee three months before thy adversaries, and they shall pursue thee: or for three days there shall be a pestilence in thy land. Now therefore deliberate, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.