“Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish where there is no water?
and there came up out of the Nile seven sleek and fat cows, and they grazed in the reed grass.
Will they not teach you and tell you and utter words out of their understanding?
While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant.
When she could hide him no longer she got a papyrus basket for him and plastered it with bitumen and pitch; she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds on the bank of the river.