and its canals will become foul, and the branches of Egypt's Nile will diminish and dry up, reeds and rushes will rot away.
I dug wells and drank waters, to dry up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt.
“Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish where there is no water?
I dug wells and drank foreign waters, and I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt.’
The fish in the Nile shall die, and the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will grow weary of drinking water from the Nile.”’”
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.
which sends ambassadors by the sea, in vessels of papyrus on the waters! Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide.
the waters of Nimrim are a desolation; the grass is withered, the vegetation fails, the greenery is no more.
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