Exodus 2:3 “But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket an…”

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

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.

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

But when she could no longer hide him, she tooke for him an arke made of reede, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and laide the childe therein, and put it among the bulrushes by the riuers brinke.

Darby Translation

And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of reeds, and plastered it with resin and with pitch, and put the child in it, and laid [it] in the sedge on the bank of the river.

Young's Literal Translation

and she hath not been able any more to hide him, and she taketh for him an ark of rushes, and daubeth it with bitumen and with pitch, and putteth the lad in it, and putteth [it] in the weeds by the edge of the River;

Bible in Basic English

And when she was no longer able to keep him secret, she made him a basket out of the stems of water-plants, pasting sticky earth over it to keep the water out; and placing the baby in it she put it among the plants by the edge of the Nile.

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Cross references

“could not”

Exodus 1:22 Acts 7:19 Matthew 2:16 Matthew 2:13

Exodus 1:22 · BSB

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: “Every son born to the Hebrews you must throw into the Nile, but every daughter you may allow to live.”

Acts 7:19 · BSB

He exploited our people and oppressed our fathers, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.

Matthew 2:16 · BSB

When Herod saw that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was filled with rage. Sending orders, he put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, according to the time he had le…

Matthew 2:13 · BSB

When the Magi had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the Child to…

“an ark”

Isaiah 18:2

Isaiah 18:2 · BSB

which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers…

“with slime”

Genesis 6:14 Genesis 11:3 Genesis 14:10

Genesis 6:14 · BSB

Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out.

Genesis 11:3 · BSB

And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.

Genesis 14:10 · BSB

Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some men fell into the pits, but the survivors fled to the hill country.

Also

Isaiah 19:6

Isaiah 19:6 · BSB

The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2and she conceived and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him for three months.

4And his sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.

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