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Exodus 2:3

American Standard Version

And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.

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Exodus 2:3 in other translations

When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.

Exodus 2:3 · World English Bible

Exodus 2:3 in context

  1. 1And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
  2. 2And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
  3. 3And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.
  4. 4And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him.
  5. 5And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river-side; and she saw the ark among the flags, and sent her handmaid to fetch it.