Exodus 2:2-3

The woman conceived and bore a son, and a when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes
Hebrew papyrus reeds
and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the c reeds by the river bank.
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