Exodus 2:3 Cross References - LEB

³ But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him, and she coated it with tar and with pitch, and she placed the boy in it, and she placed it among the reeds on the bank of the Nile.

¹⁴ Make for yourself an ark of cypress wood; you must make the ark with rooms, then* you must cover it with pitch, inside and outside.

³ And they said _⌊to each other_⌋,* "Come, let us make bricks and _⌊burn them thoroughly_⌋."* And they had brick for stone and they had tar for mortar.

¹⁰ Now* the Valley of Siddim _⌊was full of tar pits_⌋.* And the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled and _⌊fell into them_⌋,* but the rest fled to the mountains.

²² And Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, "Every son who is born you will throw into the Nile, and every daughter you will let live."

² that sends messengers by the sea and in vessels of papyrus on the surface of the waters! Go, swift messengers, to a _⌊tall_⌋* and _⌊smooth_⌋* nation, to a people feared _⌊near and far_⌋,* a _⌊mighty, mighty_⌋* and trampling* nation, whose land rivers divide.

⁶ And the rivers will become foul-smelling; the branches of the Nile of Egypt will become little and dry up; reed and rush will wither.

¹³ Now after they had gone away, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph, saying, "Get up, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. For Herod is about to seek the child to destroy him."

¹⁶ Then Herod, when he* saw that he had been deceived by the wise men, became very angry, and he sent soldiers* and* executed all the children in Bethlehem and in all the region around it from the age of two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined precisely from the wise men.

¹⁹ This man deceitfully took advantage of our* people and* mistreated our ancestors, _⌊causing them to abandon their infants_⌋* so that they would not be kept alive.