Thematic Bible: Margin rv, slime
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And when she could no longer hide him, she took a basket of bulrushes and daubed it with slime and pitch, and laid the child therein, and put it in the flags by the river's brink.
And they said, one to another, "Come on, let us make brick and burn it with fire." So brick was their stone and slime was their mortar.
And that vale of Siddim was full of slime pits. And the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there. And the residue fled to the mountains.