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| 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 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.
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|When she could not seclude him any longer, she made for him a basket of papyrus, and daubed it with asphalt and pitch, and put the boy into it; and set it in the weeds by the bank of the Nile.
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|When she could not seclude him any longer, she made for him a basket of papyrus to use as a lifeboat, and daubed it with asphalt and pitch, and put the boy into it; and set it in the weeds by the bank of the Nile.
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|The [[Hebrew]] uses the word '''תבת''' (''teveth''), the same word used to describe [[Noah's Ark]]. From this name comes the name '''Teveth''' for the fourth month of the civil year and the first month of winter in the Biblical and Hillel II calendars.
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|The [[Hebrew]] uses the word '''תבה''' (''tevah''), the same word used to describe [[Noah's Ark]]. As nearly as the roots determine, ''tevah'' means "lifeboat." From this name comes the name '''Teveth''' for the fourth month of the civil year and the first month of winter in the Biblical and Hillel II calendars.
 
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