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Exodus 2:3 KJV
Exodus · chapter 2 · verse 3
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.Exodus 2:3 · King James Version
Exodus 2:3 in context
1And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
2And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
3And 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.
4And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
5And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- bulrushesgômeʼproperly, an absorbentH1573 →
- longerʻôwdproperly, iteration or continuanceH5750 →
- daubedchâmarproperly, to boil upH2560 →
- slimechêmârbitumenH2564 →
- pitchzephethasphaltH2203 →
- childyeledsomething bornH3206 →
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Moses was a Levite, both by father and mother. Jacob left Levi under marks of disgrace (Gen 49:5); and yet, soon after, Moses appears a descendant from him, that he might typify Christ, who came in the likeness of sinful flesh and was made a curse for us.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-4