Exodus 2:3
But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
Note The Hebrew can also mean ark; also in verse 5; see Genesis 6:14.
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.
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.
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.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- could not
- Exodus 1:22; Matthew 2:13, 16; Acts 7:19
- an ark
- Isaiah 18:2
- with slime
- Genesis 6:14; Genesis 11:3; Genesis 14:10