page_title: Ark of bulrushes
hierarchical_section_title: Ark of bulrushes
caption_attribution_description: Pharaoh's daughter finding baby Moses
context_page_description: The ark of bulrushes was a container which, according to the episode known as the finding of Moses in the biblical Book of Exodus, carried the infant Moses.
  The ark, containing the three-month-old baby Moses, was placed in reeds by the river bank to protect him from the Egyptian mandate to drown every male Hebrew child, and discovered there by Pharaoh's daughter.
context_section_description: The ark of bulrushes was a container which, according to the episode known as the finding of Moses in the biblical Book of Exodus, carried the infant Moses.
  The ark, containing the three-month-old baby Moses, was placed in reeds by the river bank (presumably the Nile) to protect him from the Egyptian mandate to drown every male Hebrew child, and discovered there by Pharaoh's daughter.
caption: A painting by Konstantin Flavitsky of Pharaoh's daughter finding Moses, who is in a basket.
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