The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 7:24

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

All the Egyptians digged. Not the Hebrews. The water stored in the houses of the Hebrews in reservoirs, cisterns, and the like, was (it would seem) not vitiated; and this would suffice for the consumption of seven days.

Water to drink. Blood would not become water by percolation through earth, as Canon Cook appears to think; but there might have been sufficient water in the ground before the plague began, to fill the wells dug, for seven days.

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