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.
4. His sister stood off at a distance to see what would happen to him.