⁶ The rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither away.

²⁵ I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.

³ When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river's bank.

¹¹ "Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?

¹⁸ The fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall become foul; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river."'"

²⁴ I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.

⁶ For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.

² that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, [saying], Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!