³ They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks^(A) and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone,^(B) and tar^(C) for mortar.

¹⁰ Now the Valley of Siddim^(A) was full of tar^(B) pits, and when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah^(C) fled, some of the men fell into them and the rest fled to the hills.^(D)

³ But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus^(A) basket^[a] for him and coated it with tar and pitch.^(B) Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds^(C) along the bank of the Nile.