You boasted that you dug wells and drank water in foreign lands, and that the feet of your soldiers tramped the Nile River dry.

You boasted that you dug wells and drank water in foreign lands and that the feet of your soldiers tramped the Nile River dry.

From that land ambassadors come down the Nile in boats made of reeds. Go back home, swift messengers! Take a message back to your land divided by rivers, to your strong and powerful nation, to your tall and smooth-skinned people, who are feared all over the world.

But when she could not hide him any longer, she took a basket made of reeds and covered it with tar to make it watertight. She put the baby in it and then placed it in the tall grass at the edge of the river.

"Reeds can't grow where there is no water; they are never found outside a swamp.