Exodus 2:3

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with kofer. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river's bank.

Cross References

Genesis 11:3

They said one to another, *Come, let's make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.* They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

Genesis 14:10

Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sedom and `Amorah fled, and they fell there, and those who remained fled to the hills.

Genesis 6:14

Make a teivah of gofer wood. You shall make rooms in the teivah, and shall seal it inside and outside with kofer.

Exodus 1:22

Par`oh charged all his people, saying, *You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.*

Isaiah 18:2

that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, *Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!*

Isaiah 19:6

The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away.

Isaiah 35:7

The burning sand will become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. Grass with reeds and rushes will be in the habitation of jackals, where they lay.

Matthew 2:13

Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Yosef in a dream, saying, *Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.*

Matthew 2:16

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Beit-Lechem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

Acts 7:19

The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn't stay alive.