Exodus 2:3

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.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James 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 put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.

In Context

2And the woman conceived, and bore a son; and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.

4And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him.

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Cross References

Genesis 11:3And they said one to another: 'Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly.' And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.

Exodus 1:22And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying: 'Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.'

Isaiah 19:6And the rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be minished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 2:2-5

The Birth of Moses. ( b. c. 1571.) 1 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. 2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. 3 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 put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink. 4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him. Moses was a… Read the whole commentary →

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