Exodus 2:3

Webster's Bible (1833)

When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river's bank.

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  • Isa 18:2 : 2 that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, [saying], Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!
  • Isa 19:6 : 6 The rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither away.
  • Matt 2:13 : 13 Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, "Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him."
  • Matt 2:16 : 16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.
  • Acts 7:19 : 19 The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn't stay alive.
  • Gen 6:14 : 14 Make an ark of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ark, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.
  • Gen 11:3 : 3 They said one to another, "Come, let's make brick, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
  • Gen 14:10 : 10 Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and those who remained fled to the mountain.
  • Exod 1:22 : 22 Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, "You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive."

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    2The woman conceived, and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.

  • Exod 2:4-11
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    4His sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him.

    5Pharaoh's daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her handmaid to get it.

    6She opened it, and saw the child, and, behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children."

    7Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?"

    8Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go." The maiden went and called the child's mother.

    9Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages." The woman took the child, and nursed it.

    10The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses,{"Moses" sounds like the Hebrew for "draw out".} and said, "Because I drew him out of the water."

    11It happened in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brothers, and looked at their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.

  • Acts 7:19-21
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    19The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn't stay alive.

    20At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome. He was nourished three months in his father's house.

    21When he was thrown out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and reared him as her own son.

  • Josh 2:6-7
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    6But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order on the roof.

    7The men pursued after them the way to the Jordan to the fords: and as soon as those who pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.

  • Exod 1:22
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    22Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, "You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive."

  • Heb 11:23
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    23By faith, Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.

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    15The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah,

    16and he said, "When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live."

    17But the midwives feared God, and didn't do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

    18The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, "Why have you done this thing, and have saved the men-children alive?"

  • Gen 6:14
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    14Make an ark of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ark, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.

  • Gen 21:15
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    15The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

  • 1 Kgs 3:20
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    20She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

  • Gen 8:9
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    9but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ark; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ark.

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    15Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

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    3Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, 'They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.'