Devine Scripture

Exodus 2:3

Exodus chapter 2 · verse 3 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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 she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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 she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.

Context

v.2And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.

v.3This passage

v.4And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Isaiah 18:2

    that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide!

  • Acts 7:19

    The same dealt craftily with our race, and ill-treated our fathers, that they should cast out their babes to the end they might not live.

  • Genesis 11:3

    And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.

  • Genesis 6:14

    Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

  • Isaiah 19:6

    And the rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither away.

  • Matthew 2:16

    Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the Wise-men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the male children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had exactly learned of the Wise-men.