Exodus 2:3

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Summary

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.

Could not

Exodus 1:22

Matthew 2:13

Acts 7:19

An ark

Isaiah 18:2

With slime

Genesis 6:14

Genesis 11:3

Genesis 14:10

Bible References

Could not

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “Every son who is born you are to cast into the Nile, and every daughter you are to keep alive.”

Now when they had gone, behold, 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 remain there until I tell you; for Herod is going to search for the Child to destroy Him.”

It was he who took shrewd advantage of our race and mistreated our fathers so that they would

expose their infants and they would not survive.

An ark

Which sends envoys by the sea,
Even in papyrus vessels on the surface of the waters.
Go, swift messengers, to a nation

tall and smooth,

To a people feared far and wide,
A powerful and oppressive nation
Whose land the rivers divide.

With slime

Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch.

They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell into them. But those who survived fled to the hill country.