Verse 3

Exodus 2:3

Literal Standard Version

3 and she has not been able to hide him anymore, and she takes an ark of rushes for him, and covers it with bitumen and with pitch, and puts the boy in it, and puts it in the weeds by the edge of the River;
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
1 And there goes a man of the house of Levi, and he takes the daughter of Levi, Focus ↗
2 and the woman conceives, and bears a son, and she sees him, that he is beautiful, and she hides him... Focus ↗
3 and she has not been able to hide him anymore, and she takes an ark of rushes for him, and covers it...
4 and his sister stations herself far off, to know what is done to him. Focus ↗
5 And a daughter of Pharaoh comes down to bathe at the River, and her girls are walking by the side of... Focus ↗
6 and opens, and sees him—the boy, and behold, a child weeping! And she has pity on him and says, “Thi... Focus ↗
7 And his sister says to the daughter of Pharaoh, “Do I go? When I have called a suckling woman of the... Focus ↗
8 and the daughter of Pharaoh says to her, “Go”; and the virgin goes, and calls the mother of the boy, Focus ↗
9 and the daughter of Pharaoh says to her, “Take this boy away, and suckle him for me, and I give your... Focus ↗
10 And the boy grows, and she brings him to the daughter of Pharaoh, and he is to her for a son, and sh... Focus ↗
11 And it comes to pass, in those days, that Moses is grown, and he goes out to his brothers, and looks... Focus ↗
12 and he turns here and there, and sees that there is no man, and strikes the Egyptian, and hides him... Focus ↗
13 And he goes out on the second day, and behold, two men, Hebrews, are striving, and he says to the wr... Focus ↗
14 And he says, “Who set you for a head and judge over us? Are you saying it to slay me as you have sla... Focus ↗
15 And Pharaoh hears of this thing, and seeks to slay Moses, and Moses flees from the face of Pharaoh,... Focus ↗
16 And to a priest of Midian are seven daughters, and they come and draw, and fill the troughs to water... Focus ↗
17 and the shepherds come and drive them away, and Moses arises, and saves them, and waters their flock... Focus ↗
18 And they come to their father Reuel, and he says, “Why have you hurried to come in today?” Focus ↗
19 And they say, “A man, an Egyptian, has delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and has also d... Focus ↗
20 and he says to his daughters, “And where is he? Why is this that you left the man? Call for him, and... Focus ↗
21 And Moses is willing to dwell with the man, and he gives his daughter Zipporah to Moses, Focus ↗
22 and she bears a son, and he calls his name Gershom, for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a stran... Focus ↗
23 And it comes to pass during these many days, that the king of Egypt dies, and the sons of Israel sig... Focus ↗
24 and God (Elohim) hears their groaning, and God (Elohim) remembers His covenant with Abraham, with Is... Focus ↗
25 and God (Elohim) sees the sons of Israel, and God (Elohim) knows. Focus ↗