When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes[a] and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the (A)reeds by the river bank.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 2:3 Hebrew papyrus reeds

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