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Exodus 2:3
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Exodus 2:3
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
3 But when she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket,[a] daubed it with bitumen and pitch, and putting the child in it, placed it among the reeds on the bank of the Nile.
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- 2:3 Basket: the same Hebrew word is used in Gn 6:14 and throughout the flood narrative for Noah’s ark, but nowhere else in the Bible. Here, however, the “ark” or “chest” was made of papyrus stalks. Presumably the allusion to Genesis is intentional. Just as Noah and his family were preserved safe from the threatening waters of the flood in the ark he built, so now Moses is preserved from the threatening waters of the Nile in the ark prepared by his mother. Among the reeds: the Hebrew noun for “reed” is overwhelmingly used in the phrase “Reed Sea,” traditionally translated “Red Sea.”
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