The Birth of Moses

Now a (A)man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a Levite woman. The woman conceived and bore a son, and (B)when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. 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 (C)reeds by the river bank. And (D)his sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 2:3 Hebrew papyrus reeds

The Birth and Early Life of Moses

And a man from the family[a] of Levi went, and he took a descendent of Levi.[b] And the woman conceived, and she gave birth to a son, and she saw him, that he was a fine baby, and she hid him three months. But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him, and she coated it with tar and with pitch, and she placed the boy in it, and she placed it among the reeds on the bank of the Nile. And his sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 2:1 Literally “house”
  2. Exodus 2:1 Literally “daughter of Levi”