1. Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman,
2. and the woman conceived and bore a son. Seeing what a fine child he was, she hid him for three months.
3. But when she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket, daubed it with bitumen and pitch, and putting the child in it, placed it among the reeds on the bank of the Nile.