“Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish where there is no water?
and behold, there came up out of the Nile seven cows sleek and fat, and they fed 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.
And when she could hide him no longer she took for him a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with bitumen and pitch; and she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds at the river's brink.