Thematic Bible: Flag


Thematic Bible



The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head.

And when she was no longer able to keep him secret, she made him a basket out of the stems of water-plants, pasting sticky earth over it to keep the water out; and placing the baby in it she put it among the plants by the edge of the Nile.

And the rivers will have an evil smell; the stream of Egypt will become small and dry: all the water-plants will come to nothing.

Now Pharaoh's daughter came down to the Nile to take a bath, while her women were walking by the riverside; and she saw the basket among the river-plants, and sent her servant-girl to get it.

Will the river-plant come up in its pride without wet earth? will the grass get tall without water?


And when she was no longer able to keep him secret, she made him a basket out of the stems of water-plants, pasting sticky earth over it to keep the water out; and placing the baby in it she put it among the plants by the edge of the Nile.

Will the river-plant come up in its pride without wet earth? will the grass get tall without water?


Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain