Exodus 2:3

Modern English Version

When she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him, and daubed it with tar and pitch. She then put the child in it and set it in the reeds by the river’s bank.

Cross References

Genesis 11:3

They said to each other, “Let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone and tar for mortar.

Genesis 14:10

Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell in them, and the rest fled to the hill country.

Genesis 6:14

Make an ark of cypress wood for yourself. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch.

Exodus 1:22

Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, “You must cast every son that is born into the river, and you must preserve every daughter’s life.”

Isaiah 18:2

which sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of reeds on the waters, saying, “Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people feared far and wide, a nation strong and oppressive, whose land the rivers have divided.”

Isaiah 19:6

The canals shall emit a stench; the streams of Egypt shall diminish and dry up; the reeds and rushes shall wither.

Isaiah 35:7

The parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water; in the habitation of jackals where each lay, there shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

Matthew 2:13

Now when they departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise, take the young Child and His mother, and escape to Egypt, and stay there until I bring you word. For Herod will seek the young Child to kill Him.”

Matthew 2:16

Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, was utterly furious and sent forth and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and the surrounding region, from two years old and under, based on the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.

Acts 7:19

He dealt deceitfully with our people and mistreated our fathers, forcing them to expose their infants, so that they would not live.