1. And there went an ish of the Bais Levi, and took to wife a bat Levi.
2. And the isha conceived, and bore a ben; and when she saw him that he was tov, she hid him three months.
3. And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him a tevah (ark) of papyrus, and daubed it with tar and with pitch, and put the yeled therein; and she set it in the reeds by the bank of the Nile.
4. And his achot stood afar off, to see what would be done to him.