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Exodus 2:3

But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.

Exodus 2:3 BSB
  1. a The Hebrew can also mean ark; also in verse 5; see Genesis 6:14.

Exodus 2:3 has 9 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 6 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Exodus 1:22 (8 votes) and Genesis 6:14 (7 votes). 10 other verses point back to it. It links with 7 other books, from Genesis 6 to Hebrews 11.

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Which verses does Exodus 2:3 point to?

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  1. Exodus 1:228 votes

    Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: “Every son born to the Hebrews you must throw into the Nile, but every daughter you may allow to live.”

  2. Genesis 6:147 votes

    Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out.

  3. Acts 7:197 votes

    He exploited our people and oppressed our fathers, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.

  4. Isaiah 18:26 votes

    which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.

  5. Matthew 2:165 votes

    When Herod saw that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was filled with rage. Sending orders, he put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, according to the time he had learned from the Magi.

  6. Matthew 2:134 votes

    When the Magi had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the Child to kill Him.”

  7. Genesis 11:33 votes

    And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.

  8. Genesis 14:101 vote

    Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some men fell into the pits, but the survivors fled to the hill country.

  9. Isaiah 19:61 vote

    The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither.

Which verses point to Exodus 2:3?

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