He turned their water into blood, and killed their fish.

Then I will make their waters calm, ¹  and will make their streams flow like olive oil, declares the sovereign Lord.

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over Egypt’s waters – over their rivers, over their canals, ¹  over their ponds, and over all their reservoirs ²  – so that it becomes ³  blood.’ There will be blood everywhere in ⁴  the land of Egypt, even in wooden and stone containers.”