bulrushes And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of {bulrushes}, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid [it] in the flags by the river's brink. bulrushes That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of {bulrushes} upon the waters, [saying], Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodd en down, whose land the rivers have spoiled! ~~~~~~