Slime

(A cement made of asphaltum)

The Valley of Siddim afforded

• Genesis 14:10

  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.

Used at Babel

• Genesis 11:3

  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.

Used in Noah' s ark

• Genesis 6:14

  Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

Used in the ark (small basket) of Moses when he was an infant

• Exodus 2:3

  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.

Flammable

• Isaiah 34:9

  And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.