³ They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks^(A) and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone,^(B) and tar^(C) for mortar.

³ 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.