Objects
bitumen
Bitumen is used as mortar at Babel and in wells of Siddim; in Exodus 2 Moses' mother coats his papyrus basket with bitumen and pitch.
Category
Objects
First mention
Exodus 2:3
Tags
3
Genesis 11, 14Exodus 2Building material
Scripture references
- Exodus 2:3
When she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him; coating it with bitumen and pitch, she put the child inside and laid it among the reeds at the River's edge.
- Genesis 11:3
For stone they used bricks, and for mortar they used bitumen.
- Genesis 14:10
Now there were many bitumen wells in the Valley of Siddim...