The woman conceived and bore a son, and (A)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 (B)reeds by the river bank.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 2:3 Hebrew papyrus reeds

20 (A)At this time Moses was born; and he was beautiful in God's sight. And he was brought up for three months in his father's house,

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