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Pitch

From: Boyd's Bible Dictionary: P By: James P. Boyd

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(pine-resin). The pitch of scripture was asphalt or bitumen, found in Dead Sea regions. Used for mortar, cement, caulk, and so forth (Gen. 6:14; 11:3¹⁴Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. (Genesis 6:14)
³And 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 mortar. (Genesis 11:3); Ex. 2:3³And 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. (Exodus 2:3); Isa. 34:9⁹And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. (Isaiah 34:9)).

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