Exodus 2:3
King James Version
Translation: KJV
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1And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.Select Exodus 2:1
2And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.Select Exodus 2:2
3And 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.Select Exodus 2:3
4And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.Select Exodus 2:4
5And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.Select Exodus 2:5
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WEB
2:3 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.
ASV
2:3 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 she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.
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