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BITUMEN, (Margin R. V., slime))

=>An inflammable mineral

Genesis 11:3

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 14:10

10. 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.

Exodus 2:3

3. 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.

An inflammable mineral - BITUMEN-(Margin R. V., slime)) BITUMEN in Naves Topical Bible (Bible History Online)