1. Now a man from the house of Levi took as his wife a daughter of Levi.
2. The woman conceived and gave birth to a son. Now when she saw that he was delightful, she hid him for three months.
3. But when she could no longer hide him, she took a basket of papyrus reeds, coated it with tar and pitch, put the child inside, and laid it in the reeds by the bank of the Nile.