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The mother coats a papyrus basket with dark pitch.
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Exodus 2:3

A Basket Among the Reeds

Hidden for three months · Exodus 2

Story guide: She prepares a papyrus basket, places her son inside, and sets it among the Nile reeds.

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3But when she could no longer hide him, she took for him a papyrus basket and coated it with bitumen and pitch. Then she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.

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