Exodus 2:3 — A basket in the reeds

Exodus 2:3 · World English Bible

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.

Scripture: World English Bible, Exodus 2:3 (public domain).

The scene

On a riverbank a woman in a hooded cloak works on a woven basket coated with black pitch, then lifts it, with an infant inside, and wades into the tall reeds.

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Our words

Unable to hide him any longer, his mother seals a papyrus basket and lays the child among the reeds.

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