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.
What does Exodus 2:3 mean?
Notice the order of Providence: just at the time when Pharaoh's cruelty rose to its height by ordering the Hebrew children to be drowned, the deliverer was born.
Key themes
SalvationRedemptionPassoverCovenant
Read with
Keep this verse inside Exodus 2:1-4 and alongside a few nearby related passages.
Related topics
Glossary
- Ark Object
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Noah’s ark, a building of gopher-wood, and covered with pitch, 300 cubits long, 50 cubits broad, and 30 cubits high.
- Nile Place
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Biblical river. Modern identification: Nile River.