Exodus 2:3
But when she was no longer able to hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him and sealed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and set it among the reeds along the edge of the Nile.
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- Isa 18:2 : 2 that sends messengers by sea, who glide over the water’s surface in boats made of papyrus. Go, you swift messengers, to a nation of tall, smooth-skinned people, to a people that are feared far and wide, to a nation strong and victorious, whose land rivers divide.
- Isa 19:6 : 6 The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and then dry up; the bulrushes and reeds will decay,
- Matt 2:13 : 13 The Escape to Egypt After they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said,“Get up, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to look for the child to kill him.”
- Matt 2:16 : 16 When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he became enraged. He sent men to kill all the children in Bethlehem and throughout the surrounding region from the age of two and under, according to the time he had learned from the wise men.
- Acts 7:19 : 19 This was the one who exploited our people and was cruel to our ancestors, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.
- Gen 6:14 : 14 Make for yourself an ark of cypress wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and out.
- Gen 11:3 : 3 Then they said to one another,“Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.”(They had brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.)
- Gen 14:10 : 10 Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits. When the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell into them, but some survivors fled to the hills.
- Exod 1:22 : 22 Then Pharaoh commanded all his people,“All sons that are born you must throw into the river, but all daughters you may let live.”
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2The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a healthy child, she hid him for three months.
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4His sister stationed herself at a distance to find out what would happen to him.
5Then the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself by the Nile, while her attendants were walking alongside the river, and she saw the basket among the reeds. She sent one of her attendants, took it,
6opened it, and saw the child– a boy, crying!– and she felt compassion for him and said,“This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”
7Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter,“Shall I go and get a nursing woman for you from the Hebrews, so that she may nurse the child for you?”
8Pharaoh’s daughter said to her,“Yes, do so.” So the young girl went and got the child’s mother.
9Pharaoh’s daughter said to her,“Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him.
10When the child grew older she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying,“Because I drew him from the water.”
11The Presumption of the Deliverer In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and observed their hard labor, and he saw an Egyptian man attacking a Hebrew man, one of his own people.
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19This was the one who exploited our people and was cruel to our ancestors, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.
20At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful to God. For three months he was brought up in his father’s house,
21and when he had been abandoned, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.
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6(Now she had taken them up to the roof and had hidden them in the stalks of flax she had spread out on the roof.)
7Meanwhile the king’s men tried to find them on the road to the Jordan River near the fords. The city gate was shut as soon as they set out in pursuit of them.
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22Then Pharaoh commanded all his people,“All sons that are born you must throw into the river, but all daughters you may let live.”
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23By faith, when Moses was born, his parents hid him for three months, because they saw the child was beautiful and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.
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15The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,
16“When you assist the Hebrew women in childbirth, observe at the delivery: If it is a son, kill him, but if it is a daughter, she may live.”
17But the midwives feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live.
18Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them,“Why have you done this and let the boys live?”
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14Make for yourself an ark of cypress wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and out.
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15When the water in the skin was gone, she shoved the child under one of the shrubs.
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20She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side, while your servant was sleeping. She put him in her arms, and put her dead son in my arms.
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9The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove, and brought it back into the ark.
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15When Pharaoh heard about this event, he sought to kill Moses. So Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, and he settled by a certain well.
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3Pharaoh will think regarding the Israelites,‘They are wandering around confused in the land– the desert has closed in on them.’