But when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark made of reed, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and [a]laid the child therein, and put it among the bulrushes by the river’s brink.

Now his sister stood afar off, to wit what would come of him.

¶ Then the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash her in the river, and her maidens walked by the river’s side: and when she saw the ark among the bulrushes, she sent her maid to fetch it.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 2:3 Committing him to the providence of God, whom she could not keep from the rage of the tyrant.

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