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Exodus 2:3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with bitumen and pitch. She placed the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.

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Pharaoh then commanded all his people, ‘You must throw every son born to the Hebrews into the Nile, but let every daughter live.’


He dealt deceitfully with our race and oppressed our ancestors by making them abandon their infants outside so that they wouldn’t survive.


‘Make yourself an ark of gopher  wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and outside.


Then Herod, when he realised that he had been outwitted by the wise men, flew into a rage. He gave orders to massacre all the boys in and around Bethlehem who were two years old and under, in keeping with the time he had learned from the wise men.


which sends envoys by sea, in reed vessels over the water. Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth-skinned, to a people feared far and near, a powerful nation with a strange language, whose land is divided by rivers.


After they were gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, ‘Get up! Take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. For Herod is about to search for the child to kill him.’


They said to each other, ‘Come, let’s make oven-fired bricks.’ (They used brick for stone and bitumen  for mortar.)


The channels will stink; they will dwindle, and Egypt’s canals will be parched. Reed and rush will wilt.


Now the Siddim Valley contained many bitumen pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into them,  but the rest fled to the mountains.


the parched ground will become a pool, and the thirsty land, springs. In the haunt of jackals,  in their lairs, there will be grass, reeds, and papyrus.





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