Blood, Water and Magicians (rain and the nile)

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JAN
I've tried to follow this long-winded debate, and I cannot remember to have 
seen the CCBE bring up the topic of *rain* and the flow of water. 

If we accept the interpretation that it would be sufficient for the 
magicians to make *some* water into blood to do "likewise" (we don't, but 
for the sake of argument...), it would be possible for the magicians to make 
some water into blood even if all the water in Egypt was made into blood. 

First, the water of the Nile flows from a source far south of Egypt, so 
(depending on the flow), new water would start flowing into Egypt (even the 
lower Egypt, where this incident allegedly occurred) from the Nile before 
the end of this period. Actually, if we do not bind ourselves to the natural 
flow of the story (ie. the magicians' miracle came more or less immediately 
after Aaron's), it would be possible for the magicans to *perfectly* 
duplicate the trick: make *all* the (new) water in Egypt into blood.

Second, some water could have been provided by rain fall. The problem with 
this idea is that rainfall is sparse, to put it mildly, in Egypt. I am not 
certain about current weather patterns, but I doubt it rains very much in 
the early spring. Egypt is and was totally dependent on the Nile for its 
agriculture.


- Jan

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