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She became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw how wonderful the baby was, she hid him for three months. But after three months she was not able to hide the baby any longer, so she got a basket made of reeds and covered it with tar so that it would float. She put the baby in the basket. Then she put the basket among the tall stalks of grass at the edge of the Nile River. The baby’s sister stood a short distance away to see what would happen to him.

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and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine(A) child, she hid him for three months.(B) But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus(C) basket[a] for him and coated it with tar and pitch.(D) Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds(E) along the bank of the Nile. His sister(F) stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.

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  1. Exodus 2:3 The Hebrew can also mean ark, as in Gen. 6:14.

So the woman conceived and bore a son. And (A)when she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him three months. But when she could no longer hide him, she took an ark of (B)bulrushes for him, daubed it with (C)asphalt and (D)pitch, put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds (E)by the river’s bank. (F)And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him.

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