22 Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Every Hebrew boy that is born you must throw into the Nile,(A) but let every girl live.”(B)

The Birth of Moses

Now a man of the tribe of Levi(C) married a Levite woman,(D) and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine(E) child, she hid him for three months.(F) But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus(G) basket[a] for him and coated it with tar and pitch.(H) Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds(I) along the bank of the Nile.

Footnotes

  1. Exodus 2:3 The Hebrew can also mean ark, as in Gen. 6:14.

22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.

And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.

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.