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“But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.”

“Soon the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe in the Nile, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. And when she saw the basket among the reeds, she sent her maidservant to retrieve it.”

“Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Do reeds flourish without water?”

“The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither.”

“The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my head.”