סוּף

When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.

Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her servant to get it.

The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away.

The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.