Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the flag grow without water?
And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well-favored kine and fat-fleshed; and they fed in a meadow.
Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
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 put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.