2 The woman became pregnant and bore a son. She saw how beautiful he was and hid him for three months.

3 When she could not hide him any longer, she took a basket made of papyrus reeds and coated it with tar and pitch. She put the baby in it and set it among the papyrus reeds near the bank of the Nile River.

4 The babys sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.

5 The kings daughter came to the river to bathe. Her servants walked along the bank. Suddenly she noticed the basket in the papyrus reeds and sent a slave woman to get it.