³ 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.

^19 (A)He dealt shrewdly with our race and forced our fathers to expose their infants, ^(B)so that they would not be kept alive.

²² Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, ^(A)“Every son that is born to the Hebrews^[a] you shall cast into ^(B)the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.”

¹⁴ Make yourself an ark of gopher wood.^[a] Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch.

Herod Kills the Children

¹⁶ Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men.

The Flight to Egypt

¹³ Now when they had departed, behold, ^(A)an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.”

³ And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, ^(A)and bitumen for mortar.

¹⁰ Now the Valley of Siddim was full of ^(A)bitumen pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into them, and the rest fled ^(B)to the hill country.