When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank.
Exodus 2:3

Moses' mother made an ark and covered it with pitch, saving Israel and the world from the flood of Egypt. His ark was much like Noah's: plant material coated with pitch to save humanity through dangerous waters. The word for "pitch" is kofer, spelled exactly the same in Hebrew as kipur, which means atonement. Moses in the river and Noah in the Flood are prophetic foreshadowings of another exceptional man saving the world by atonement.
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