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.
that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, {\i saying}, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide!
Art thou better than No-amon, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about her; whose rampart was the sea, {\i and} her wall was of the sea?