17 Thus says Yah Veh, In this you know I - Yah Veh: behold, with the rod in my hand I smite on the waters in the river and they turn to blood:
18 and the fish in the river die and the river stink: and the Misrayim loathe to drink of the water of the river.
19 And Yah Veh says to Mosheh, Say to Aharon, Take your rod and spread your hand on the waters of Misrayim - on their streams, on their rivers and on their marshes and on all their congregations of water - and they become blood; and blood becomes in all the land of Misrayim - both in timber and in stone.
20 And thus Mosheh and Aharon work as Yah Veh misvahed; and he lifts the rod and smites the waters in the river in the eyes of Paroh and in the eyes of his servants; and all the waters in the river turn to blood: