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Now a man from the house of Levi went and married a daughter of Levi.

And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.

And the woman conceived and gave birth to a son; and when she saw that he was beautiful, she hid him for three months.

And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.

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

And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.

And his sister stood at a distance to find out what would happen to him.

And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.