14The LORD said to Moses, The heart of Pharaoh is heavy; he has refused to let the people go.15Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Behold, he is going out to the water, and you shall stand on the bank of the Nile to meet him; take in your hand the rod that turned into a serpent.16You shall say to him, The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you with this message: Let my people go, so that they may serve me in the wilderness. Yet until now you have not listened.17Thus says the LORD: By this you shall know that I am the LORD. Behold, I will strike the water that is in the Nile with the rod in my hand, and it will be turned to blood.18The fish in the Nile will die, the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will grow weary of drinking water from the Nile.19The LORD said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Take your rod and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over their rivers, their Nile canals, their pools, and every reservoir of their water—and they will become blood; there will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, and in the trees and in the stones.'"20Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded. He lifted the rod and struck the water that was in the Nile in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, and all the water in the Nile turned to blood.21The fish in the Nile died, the Nile stank, and the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile; the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt.22The magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts, and Pharaoh's heart was hardened; he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.23Pharaoh turned and went into his house; he did not take this to heart either.24All the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they could not drink the water of the Nile.