1. After this there went a man of the house of Levi; and took a wife of his own kindred.
2. And she conceived, and bore a son; and seeing him a goodly child hid him three months.
3. And when she could hide him no longer, she took a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and pitch: and put the little babe therein, and laid him in the sedges by the river's brink,