Exodus 2:3

Good News Translation

But when she could not hide him any longer, she took a basket made of reeds and covered it with tar to make it watertight. She put the baby in it and then placed it in the tall grass at the edge of the river.

Cross References

Genesis 11:3

They said to one another, “Come on! Let's make bricks and bake them hard.” So they had bricks to build with and tar to hold them together.

Genesis 14:10

The valley was full of tar pits, and when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah tried to run away from the battle, they fell into the pits; but the other three kings escaped to the mountains.

Genesis 6:14

Build a boat for yourself out of good timber; make rooms in it and cover it with tar inside and out.

Exodus 1:22

Finally the king issued a command to all his people: “Take every newborn Hebrew boy and throw him into the Nile, but let all the girls live.”

Isaiah 18:2

From that land ambassadors come down the Nile in boats made of reeds. Go back home, swift messengers! Take a message back to your land divided by rivers, to your strong and powerful nation, to your tall and smooth-skinned people, who are feared all over the world.

Isaiah 19:6

The channels of the river will stink as they slowly go dry. Reeds and rushes will wither,

Isaiah 35:7

the burning sand will become a lake, and dry land will be filled with springs. Where jackals used to live, marsh grass and reeds will grow.

Matthew 2:13

After they had left, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph and said, “Herod will be looking for the child in order to kill him. So get up, take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you to leave.”

Matthew 2:16

When Herod realized that the visitors from the East had tricked him, he was furious. He gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its neighborhood who were two years old and younger—this was done in accordance with what he had learned from the visitors about the time when the star had appeared.

Acts 7:19

He tricked our ancestors and was cruel to them, forcing them to put their babies out of their homes, so that they would die.