18 when out of the river there came up seven cows, fat and sleek, and they grazed among the reeds.(A)

Read full chapter

18 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:

Read full chapter

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.

Read full chapter

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.

Read full chapter

21 Under the lotus plants it lies,
    hidden among the reeds(A) in the marsh.(B)

Read full chapter

21 He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.

Read full chapter

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

Read full chapter

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.

Read full chapter