Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Bible References

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Matthew 2:13
After they had gone, there appeared an angel of the Lord to Joseph in a dream, saying, "Rise, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt; stay there till I tell you. For Herod is going to search for the child and destroy him."
Acts 7:19
He took a cunning method with our race; he oppressed our ancestors by forcing them to expose their infants, to prevent them from surviving.