Exodus 7:20-21

"Moses and Aaron did just as the Lord had commanded. He raised his staff in the presence of Pharaoh and his officials and struck the water of the Nile, and all the water was changed into blood. The fish smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink."

Many ancient cultures revered the rivers that watered their lands and were literally the lifeblood of their nations- their source of life.

The Egyptians considered the Nile river to be the sacred bloodstream of the god Osiris, who was the ruler of the realm of the dead in the mysterious region that was below the western horizon.

Sothis and Khnum were the gods of the Nile and protected it. When God turned the Nile into blood and filled it with death He was displaying His power to the Egyptians. He showed them that He had power over all gods and that only He was their God.

Scholars differ in their opinions as to whether the water became actual blood, blood-like or bloody. Regardless of how the change was affected, it turned Egypt's water into something nauseating and unusable. It was filled with death and in this state would have been looked upon by the Egyptians (and especially Pharaoh and his priests) as a great offense to their pagan gods that they believed gave life to their lands by means of the river.

GAIL

YES when you show people that the gods they are
worshipping are not true they get very upset.
they have to decide if they will contnue to worship
their gods.......

dgrimm60