But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus(A) basket[a] for him and coated it with tar and pitch.(B) Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds(C) along the bank of the Nile.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 2:3 The Hebrew can also mean ark, as in Gen. 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.

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But when she could no longer hide him, she took an ark of (A)bulrushes for him, daubed it with (B)asphalt and (C)pitch, put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds (D)by the river’s bank.

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When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes[a] and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the (A)reeds by the river bank.

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  1. Exodus 2:3 Hebrew papyrus reeds

The canals will stink;(A)
    the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up.(B)
The reeds(C) and rushes will wither,(D)

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And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

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The rivers will turn foul;
The brooks (A)of defense will be emptied and dried up;
The reeds and rushes will wither.

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and its canals will become foul,
    and the branches of Egypt's Nile will diminish and dry up,
    reeds and rushes will rot away.

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The burning sand will become a pool,
    the thirsty ground(A) bubbling springs.(B)
In the haunts where jackals(C) once lay,
    grass and reeds(D) and papyrus will grow.

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And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

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The parched ground shall become a pool,
And the thirsty land springs of water;
In (A)the habitation of jackals, where each lay,
There shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

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(A)the burning sand shall become a pool,
    and the thirsty ground springs of water;
in the haunt of (B)jackals, where they lie down,
    the grass shall become reeds and rushes.

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