18 when out of the river there came up seven cows, fat and sleek, and they grazed among the reeds.(A)

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18 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:

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18 Suddenly seven cows came up out of the river, fine looking and fat; and they fed in the meadow.

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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.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 2:3 The Hebrew can also mean ark, as in Gen. 6:14.

And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.

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But when she could no longer hide him, she took an ark of (A)bulrushes for him, daubed it with (B)asphalt and (C)pitch, put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds (D)by the river’s bank.

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21 Under the lotus plants it lies,
    hidden among the reeds(A) in the marsh.(B)

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21 He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.

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21 He lies under the lotus trees,
In a covert of reeds and marsh.

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The canals will stink;(A)
    the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up.(B)
The reeds(C) and rushes will wither,(D)

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And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

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The rivers will turn foul;
The brooks (A)of defense will be emptied and dried up;
The reeds and rushes will wither.

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