1. Now a man from the family of Levi married a Levite woman.
2. The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son; when she saw that he was beautiful, she hid him for three months.
3. But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with asphalt and pitch. She placed the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.