Nile

Scripture references

• Genesis 41:1

  Two years later it happened that Pharaoh had a dream: there he was, standing by the Nile,

• Genesis 41:2

  and there, coming up from the Nile, were seven cows, sleek and fat, and they began to feed among the rushes.

• Genesis 41:17

  So Pharaoh told Joseph, 'In my dream there I was, standing on the bank of the Nile.

• Exodus 1:22

  Pharaoh then gave all his people this command: 'Throw every new-born boy into the river, but let all the girls live.'

• Exodus 2:3

  When she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him; coating it with bitumen and pitch, she put the child inside and laid it among the reeds at the River's edge.

• Exodus 2:5

  Now Pharaoh's daughter went down to bathe in the river, while her maids walked along the riverside. Among the reeds she noticed the basket, and she sent her maid to fetch it.

• Exodus 2:10

  When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter who treated him like a son; she named him Moses 'because', she said, 'I drew him out of the water.'

• Exodus 4:9

  but should they not be convinced by either of these two signs and refuse to listen to what you say, you are to take some water from the River and pour it on the ground, and the water you have taken from the River will turn to blood on the dry land.'

• Exodus 7:17

  with the staff that is in my hand I shall strike the waters of the River and they will turn to blood.

• Exodus 7:20

  He raised his staff and struck the waters of the River, with Pharaoh and his officials looking on, and all the water in the River turned to blood.

• Exodus 17:5

  Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Go on ahead of the people, taking some of the elders of Israel with you; in your hand take the staff with which you struck the River, and go.