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A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife. The woman conceived and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank. His sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him.

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Moses’s Birth and Adoption

Now a man from the family of Levi married a Levite woman.(A) The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son; when she saw that he was beautiful,[a] she hid him for three months.(B) But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with asphalt and pitch. She placed the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile. Then his sister(C) stood at a distance in order to see what would happen to him.

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  1. 2:2 Or healthy