What did god do to the Nile river?

Pharaoh's daughter finds Moses in the Nile and draws him out ( Exod 2:5 ). Later, God tells Moses to pour water from the Nile onto dry ground where it will turn into blood in order to convince the Israelites that Moses is a representative of the God of their ancestors ( Exod 4:9 ).



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Water turned to blood The Nile river was a life source for Egypt, and so this plague caused absolute disaster across the land. God used Moses and Aaron to bring about this plague. He sent them to the brink of the river Nile, where Aaron raised his staff and struck the water, which then turned it into blood.

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Assignment #1: Egypt is wholly the gift of the Nile, means that the Nile River made civilization in Egypt possible. It provided the people with means for transport, help with irrigation for farming, some food such as fish, and even created fertile soil for growing crops.

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A hadith from Prophet Muhammad reports that four rivers emerge from heaven: Euphrates, Nile, Sayhan and Jayhan; Hosseinizadeh stresses that the latter two are not necessarily Sayhun (Syr Daria) and Jayhun (Amu Daria).

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Melting snow and heavy summer rain in the Ethiopian Mountains sent a torrent of water causing the banks of the River Nile in Egypt to overflow on the flat desert land. Why does the Nile not flood now ? The construction of the Aswan Dam in the 1960's meant that from 1970 the annual flood was controlled.

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Today, 95 percent of Egyptians live within a few kilometers of the Nile. Canals bring water from the Nile to irrigate farms and support cities. The Nile supports agriculture and fishing. The Nile also has served as an important transportation route for thousands of years.

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Every year the Nile would flood its banks, this would provide vital fertile silt and water to the land so that it could continue to grow crops. The ancient Egyptians developed irrigation methods to increase their crop yields that in turn supported the large population and mighty civilization of ancient Egypt.

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The Nile and the creation myth The Nile is an integral part of a creation myth associated with the myth of Osiris. Death and rebirth is symbolised by the annual cycle of vegetation accompanying the rise and fall of the Nile waters. Witnessing the natural processes of the Earth influenced beliefs in an afterlife.

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