The term used here for what Moses’ mother114 put him in is tēbāh, found elsewhere in the Bible only in the flood story in Genesis 6–8, where it is translated “ark.”115 Moses apparently was consciously drawing the reader’s attention to the fact that God, through Moses’ mother’s actions, was graciously protecting him from death by a small ark, just as God had protected Noah and the animals by a great ark in the days of the great flood.
