Verse 3
Exodus 2:3
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
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And when she could hide him no longer, she took a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and pitch: and put the little babe therein, and laid him in the sedges by the river's brink,
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/לֹא יָכְלָ֣ה עוֹד֮ הַצְּפִינ/וֹ֒ וַ/תִּֽקַּֽח ל/וֹ֙ תֵּ֣בַת גֹּ֔מֶא וַ/תַּחְמְרָ֥/ה בַ/חֵמָ֖ר וּ/בַ/זָּ֑פֶת וַ/תָּ֤שֶׂם בָּ/הּ֙ אֶת הַ/יֶּ֔לֶד וַ/תָּ֥שֶׂם בַּ/סּ֖וּף עַל שְׂפַ֥ת הַ/יְאֹֽר
English Translation
And she could no longer hide him, so she took a basket made of bulrushes and coated it with asphalt and pitch, and she placed the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the river.
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Chapter 2 Context
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After this there went a man of the house of Levi; and took a wife of his own kindred.
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And she conceived, and bore a son; and seeing him a goodly child hid him three months.
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And when she could hide him no longer, she took a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime...
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His sister standing afar off, and taking notice what would be done.
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And behold the daughter of Pharao came down to wash herself in the river: and her maids walked by th...
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She opened it and seeing within it an infant crying, having compassion on it she said: This is one o...
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And the child's sister said to her Shall I go and call to thee a Hebrew woman, to nurse the babe ?
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She answered: Go. The maid went and called her mother.
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And Pharao's daughter said to her. Take this child and nurse him for me: I will give thee thy wages....
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And she adopted him for a son, and called him Moses, saying: Because I took him out of the water.
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In those days after Moses was grown up, he went out to his brethren: and saw their affliction, and a...
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And when he had looked about this way and that way, and saw no one there, he slew the Egyptian and h...
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And going out the next day, he saw two Hebrews quarreling: and he said to him that did the wrong: Wh...
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But he answered: Who hath appointed thee prince and judge over us: wilt thou kill me, as thou didst...
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And Pharao heard of this word and sought to kill Moses: but he fled from his sight, and abode in the...
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And the priest of Madian had seven daughters, who came to draw water: and when the troughs were fill...
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And the shepherds came and drove them away: and Moses arose, and defending the maids, watered their...
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And when they returned to Raguel their father, he said to them: Why are ye come sooner than usual?
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They answered: A man of Egypt delivered us from the hands of the shepherds: and he drew water also w...
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But he said: Where is he? why have you let the man go? call him that he may eat bread.
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And Moses swore that he would dwell with him. And he took Sephora his daughter to wife:
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And she bore him a son, whom he called Gersam, saying: I have been a stranger in a foreign country....
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Now after a long time the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel groaning, cried out because...
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And he heard their groaning, and remembered the covenant which he made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jaco...
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And the Lord looked upon the children of Israel, and he knew them.
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