Exodus 2:3 → Genesis 6:14

The Hebrew תֵּבָה (tebah, H8392, "ark/vessel") names, in all the Old Testament, only two objects: Noah's ark (Genesis 6:14) and the basket of the infant Moses (Exodus 2:3). The correspondence is deliberate and dense. Both vessels are commanded or contrived as the sole means of rescue in a narrative of judgment; both are waterproofed with pitch — Noah's ark "coat it with pitch inside and out" (כֹּפֶר, Gen 6:14), Moses' basket "coated it with tar and pitch" (Ex 2:3); and each bears a God-appointed deliverer safely through death-dealing waters into a new commission (Noah into the re-created world, Moses toward the exodus). The Exodus narrator, writing later, casts the deliverer of Israel as a new Noah drawn through the flood. The echo is genuine but is rightly held at the Lexicon-note altitude — an OT-to-OT development of the salvation-through-water pattern, not a lexical bridge to Christian baptism. Note that the LXX does not carry the lexeme across: it renders tebah as κιβωτός throughout Genesis but as θῖβις ("wicker basket") at Exodus 2:3, so the correspondence lives at the Hebrew level, running Noah → Moses, and the Greek κιβωτός chain runs to Noah alone.