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Bitumen
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Bitumen in the Bible Dictionary
- (Margin R. V., slime))
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An inflammable mineral
Gen 11:3; 14:10; Ex 2:3
3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
Genesis 11:310 And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.
Genesis 14:103 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.
Exodus 2:3 - See Petroleum
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
