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Summary
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.
Slime
Bible References
Brick
Exodus 1:14
And they made their lives bitter with hard work in mortar and in bricks, and in all kinds of work in the field; all their work in which they made them do was with harshness.
Exodus 5:7
You shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
2 Samuel 12:31
And he brought forth the people that were in it, and put them to the saw, and to sharp tools of iron, and to axes of iron. And he made them go over into the brick-kiln. And so he did to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
Isaiah 9:10
The bricks have fallen down, but we will build with cut stones; the sycamores are cut down, but we use cedars instead.
Isaiah 65:3
a people who without ceasing provoke Me to anger to My face; who sacrifice in gardens, and burn incense on the bricks;
Nahum 3:14
Draw waters for the siege; fortify your strongholds; go into the clay, and tread the mortar; make the brick mold strong.
Slime
Genesis 14:10
And the valley of Siddim was full of asphalt pits. And the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.
Exodus 2:3
But when she could no longer hide him, she took an ark of papyrus for him, and daubed it with bitumen and with pitch, and put the child in it. And she laid it in the reeds by the river's edge.