Come and study the Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast,

The Whole Council of God. Father Stephen holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies, and it's an Orthodox

priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Chapter 2, verse 1.

Now, a man of the house of Levi went and took as a wife a daughter of Levi, so the woman

conceived and bore a son, and see he was a beautiful child, they hid him for three months.

The Hebrew literally says he was a good child, but the him for three months. The Hebrew literally says he was a good child.

But the idea is he's healthy, right?

He's a healthy, everything child.

But they say, uh-oh, it's open season on boy babies, right?

So they hide him for three months after his birth.

But when she could no longer hide him,

she took an arc of bulrushes,

daubed it with asphalt.

Asphalt.

Anyway, it's tar or pitch.

It's not paving a street.

Anyway, put the child in it and laid it in the reeds by the rivers bank.

So here's already another, right, describing this basket as an arc.

Describing it being sealed with pitch and tar. Think back to Noah.

Right.

Now, his sister was watching from a distance to learn what would be done with him.

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