'The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live and when I see the blood I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. 'For I will go through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments-I am the LORD. 'Now you shall eat it in this manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand and you shall eat it in haste-it is the LORD'S Passover. 'And you shall not leave any of it over until morning, but whatever is left of it until morning, you shall burn with fire. 'Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but rather roasted with fire, both its head and its legs along with its entrails. 'They shall eat the flesh that same night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 'Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. Seven days passed after the LORD had struck the Nile. So all the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink of the water of the Nile.

Then Pharaoh turned and went into his house with no concern even for this. But the magicians of Egypt did the same with their secret arts and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them, as the LORD had said. And the blood was through all the land of Egypt. The fish that were in the Nile died, and the Nile became foul, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. And he lifted up the staff 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 that was in the Nile was turned to blood. So Moses and Aaron did even as the LORD had commanded. 'The fish that are in the Nile will die, and the Nile will become foul, and the Egyptians will find difficulty in drinking water from the Nile.''' Then the LORD said to Moses, 'Say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their reservoirs of water, that they may become blood and there will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.'' read more. 'Thus 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 staff that is in my hand, and it will be turned to blood.

The land of blood and ice