¹⁷ But the Lord ^(A)struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

^3 (A)But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Behold, ^(B)you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is ^[a]married.”

¹⁵ Go to Pharaoh in the morning ^[a]just as ^(A)he is going out to the water, and position yourself to meet him on the bank of the Nile; and you shall take in your hand ^(B)the staff that was turned into a serpent. ¹⁶ And ^(C)you shall say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, “^(D)Let My people go, so that they may serve Me in the wilderness. But behold, you have not listened up to now.” ¹⁷ This is what the Lord says: “^(E)By this you shall know that I am the Lord: behold, I am going to strike ^[b]the water that is in the Nile with the staff that is in my hand, and ^(F)it will be turned into blood. ¹⁸ Then ^(G)the fish that are in the Nile will die, the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will ^[c](H)no longer be able to drink water from the Nile.”’”