Exodus 2:1-3

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

2 After this there went a man of the house of Levi; and took a wife of his own kindred.

² And she conceived, and bore a son; and seeing him a goodly child hid him three months.

³ And when she could hide him no longer, she took a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and pitch: and put the little babe therein, and laid him in the sedges by the river's brink,