Exodus 2:3

Tree of Life Version

But when she could no longer hide him, she took a basket of papyrus reeds, coated it with tar and pitch, put the child inside, and laid it in the reeds by the bank of the Nile.

Cross References

Genesis 11:3

They said to one another, “Come! Let’s make bricks and bake them until they’re hard.” So they used bricks for stone, and tar for mortar.

Genesis 14:10

Now the Valley of the Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell into them, and those who remained fled to the hills.

Genesis 6:14

Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood. You shall make the ark with compartments and smear pitch on it, both inside and out.

Exodus 1:22

But Pharaoh charged all his people saying, “You are to cast every son that is born into the river, but let every daughter live.”

Isaiah 18:2

that sends ambassadors by sea, in papyrus vessels upon the water. Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth-skinned, to a people feared far and wide, a nation powerful and oppressive, whose land the rivers divide.

Isaiah 19:6

Then the channels will stink. The streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up. Reeds and rushes will rot.

Isaiah 35:7

The parched land will become a pool, the thirsty ground springs of water. In the haunt of jackals, where they rest, grass will become reeds and rushes.

Matthew 2:13

Now when they had gone, behold, an angel of Adonai appears to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Get up! Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the Child, to kill Him.”

Matthew 2:16

Then when Herod saw that he had been tricked by the magi, he became furious. And he sent and killed all boys in Bethlehem and in all its surrounding area, from two years old and under, according to the time he had determined from the magi.

Acts 7:19

Dealing with our people with cruel cunning, this king mistreated our fathers and forced them to abandon their infants so they would not survive.