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This material is mentioned in several passages and was used in ancient construction and waterproofing techniques. The Hebrew word often translated as "slime" is "chemar," which can also mean "bitumen" or "tar."<br><br><b>Biblical References:</b><br><br>1. <b><a href="/genesis/11-3.htm">Genesis 11:3</a></b> · The Tower of Babel: "And they said to one another, 'Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.' They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar." In this passage, the people of Babel used slime, or bitumen, as a binding agent for bricks in their construction of the tower. This indicates the advanced knowledge of materials and construction techniques in the ancient world.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/genesis/14-10.htm">Genesis 14:10</a></b> · The Battle of the Kings: "Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into them, but the rest fled to the hills." The Valley of Siddim, identified with the region around the Dead Sea, was rich in bituminous deposits. The presence of tar pits played a role in the narrative of the battle, illustrating the treacherous terrain and the natural resources of the area.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/exodus/2-3.htm">Exodus 2:3</a></b> · The Birth of Moses: "But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile." Moses' mother used slime, or pitch, to waterproof the basket in which she placed the infant Moses. This use of bitumen for waterproofing is consistent with ancient practices and highlights the resourcefulness of Moses' family in protecting him.<br><br><b>Historical and Cultural Context:</b><br><br>In the ancient Near East, bitumen was a valuable resource due to its adhesive and waterproofing properties. It was commonly used in construction, as seen in the building of the Tower of Babel, and in everyday applications such as waterproofing baskets and vessels. The availability of bitumen in regions like the Dead Sea area made it a significant material for various practical uses.<br><br>The use of slime in biblical narratives underscores the ingenuity and adaptability of ancient peoples in utilizing natural resources. It also provides insight into the technological capabilities of the time, reflecting a sophisticated understanding of materials and their applications.<br><br><b>Theological Implications:</b><br><br>The mention of slime in the Bible, while primarily descriptive, can also be seen as a metaphor for human ingenuity and the potential for both constructive and destructive endeavors. In the account of the Tower of Babel, the use of slime for construction symbolizes human ambition and the desire to reach the heavens, ultimately leading to divine intervention and the scattering of peoples. This narrative serves as a reminder of the limits of human achievement without divine guidance.<br><br>In the account of Moses, the use of slime for waterproofing the basket represents the providential care and protection of God over His chosen servant, even from infancy. It highlights the theme of divine intervention and preservation in the midst of human vulnerability and danger.<a name="smi" id="smi"></a><div class="vheading2">Smith's Bible Dictionary</div><span class="encheading">Slime</span><p>translated <i>bitumen</i> in the Vulgate. The three instances in which it is mentioned in the Old Testament are illustrated by travellers and historians. It is first spoken of as used for cement by the builders in the plain of Shinar or Babylonia. (<a href="/genesis/11-3.htm">Genesis 11:3</a>) The bitumen pits in the vale of Siddim are mentioned in the ancient fragment of Canaanitish history, (<a href="/genesis/14-10.htm">Genesis 14:10</a>) and the ark of papyrus in which Moses was placed was made impervious to water by a coating of bitumen and pitch. (<a href="/exodus/2-3.htm">Exodus 2:3</a>) Herodotus, i. 179, tells us of the bitumen found at Is, the modern <i>Heet</i> , a town of Babylonia, eight days journey from Babylon. (Bitumen, or asphalt, is "the product of the decomposition of vegetable and animal substances. It is usually found of a black or brownish-black color, externally not unlike coal, but it varies in a consistency from a bright, pitchy condition, with a conchoidal fracture, to thick, viscid masses of mineral tar." --Encyc. Brit. In this last state it is called in the Bible slime, and is of the same nature as our petroleum, but thicker, and hardens into asphalt. It is obtained in various places in Europe, and even now occasionally from the Dead Sea. --ED.)<a name="amt" id="amt"></a><div class="vheading2">ATS Bible Dictionary</div><span class="encheading">Slime</span><p>See <a href="../p/pitch.htm">PITCH</a>, and <a href="../s/sea.htm">SEA</a>3</p><a name="eas" id="eas"></a><div class="vheading2">Easton's Bible Dictionary</div>(<a href="/genesis/11-3.htm">Genesis 11:3</a>; LXX., "asphalt;" R.V. marg., "bitumen"). The vale of Siddim was full of slime pits (<a href="/genesis/14-10.htm">14:10</a>). Jochebed daubed the "ark of bulrushes" with slime (<a href="/exodus/2-3.htm">Exodus 2:3</a>). (see <a href="../p/pitch.htm">PITCH</a>.) <a name="web" id="web"></a><div class="vheading2">Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary</div>1. (<I>n.</I>) Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud.<p>2. (<I>n.</I>) Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.<p>3. (<I>n.</I>) Bitumen.<p>4. (<I>n.</I>) Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.<p>5. (<I>n.</I>) A mucus like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals.<p>6. (<I>v. t.</I>) To smear with slime.<a name="isb" id="isb"></a><div class="vheading2">International Standard Bible Encyclopedia</div><span class="encheading">SLIME; SLIME PITS</span><p>slim, slim'-pits (chemar; Septuagint asphaltos; Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 A.D.) bitumen; the Revised Version margin "bitumen"; compare Arabic chummar, "bitumen"; and compare chomer, "clay," "mortar"): In the account of the ark in <a href="/genesis/6-14.htm">Genesis 6:14</a>, kopher Septuagint asphaltos; Vulgate: bitumen; compare Arabic kufr, "pitch") does not necessarily denote vegetable pitch, but may well mean bitumen. The same may be said of zepheth, "pitch" (compare Arabic zift, "pitch"), in <a href="/exodus/2-3.htm">Exodus 2:3</a> and <a href="/isaiah/34-9.htm">Isaiah 34:9</a>. The word "slime" occurs in the following passages: "And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar" (<a href="/genesis/11-3.htm">Genesis 11:3</a>); "Now the vale of Siddim was full of slime pits" (<a href="/genesis/14-10.htm">Genesis 14:10</a>, margin "bitumen pits"); "She took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch" (<a href="/exodus/2-3.htm">Exodus 2:3</a>).<br><br>Bitumen is a hydrocarbon allied to petroleum and natural gas. It is a lustrous black solid, breaking with a conchoidal fracture, burning with a yellow flame, and melting when ignited. It is probably derived from natural gas and petroleum by a process of oxidation and evaporation, and its occurrence may be taken as a sign that other hydrocarbons are or have been present in the strata. It is found in small lumps and larger masses in the cretaceous limestone on the west side of the Dead Sea, and there is reason to believe that considerable quantities of it rise to the surface of the Dead Sea during earthquakes. In ancient times it was exported to Egypt to be used in embalming mummies. Important mines of it exist at Chasbeiya near Mt. Hermon and in North Syria. Springs of liquid bituminous matter exist in Mesopotamia, where according to Herodotus and other classical writers it was used as mortar with sun-dried bricks. Various conjectures have been made as to the part played by bitumen in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Diodorus Siculus calls the Dead Sea limne asphalstitis, "lake of asphalt."<br><br>See <a href="../s/siddim.htm">SIDDIM</a>; <a href="../c/cities.htm">CITIES OF THE PLAIN</a>.<br><br>Alfred Ely Day<p><a name="heb" id="heb"></a><div class="vheading2">Strong's Hebrew</div><a href="/hebrew/7388a.htm"><span class="l">7388a. rir -- to flow (like <b>slime</b>)</span></a><br><b>...</b> rir. 7388b . to flow (like <b>slime</b>). Transliteration: rir Short Definition: flow. <b>...</b><br> root Definition to flow (like <b>slime</b>) NASB Word Usage flow (1). 7388, 7388a. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/7388a.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 5k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/7388.htm"><span class="l">7388. riyr -- to flow (like <b>slime</b>)</span></a><br><b>...</b> 7387, 7388. riyr. 7388a . to flow (like <b>slime</b>). Transliteration: riyr Phonetic<br> Spelling: (reer) Short Definition: spittle. spittle, white of an egg <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/7388.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 5k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/8602.htm"><span class="l">8602. taphel -- tasteless, unseasoned</span></a><br><b>...</b> From an unused root meaning to smear; plaster (as gummy) or <b>slime</b>; (figuratively)<br> frivolity -- foolish things, unsavoury, untempered. 8601, 8602. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/8602.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 5k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/2564.htm"><span class="l">2564. chemar -- bitumen, asphalt</span></a><br><b>...</b> slimepit. From chamar; bitumen (as rising to the surface) -- <b>slime</b>(-pit). see HEBREW<br> chamar. 2563c, 2564. chemar. 2565 . Strong's Numbers. <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/2564.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/7642.htm"><span class="l">7642. shabluwl -- a snail</span></a><br><b>...</b> snail From the same as shebel; a snail (as if floating in its own <b>slime</b>) -- snail.<br> see HEBREW shebel. 7641, 7642. shabluwl. 7642a . Strong's Numbers. <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/7642.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 5k</font><a name="lib" id="lib"></a><div class="vheading2">Library</div><p><a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_the_body_of_the.htm"><span class="l">Whether the Body of the First Man was Made of the <b>Slime</b> of the <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> THE PRODUCTION OF THE FIRST MAN'S BODY (FOUR ARTICLES) Whether the body of<br> the first man was made of the <b>slime</b> of the earth? Objection <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether the body of the.htm</font><p><a href="/library/gordon/quiet_talks_on_johns_gospel/grace_and_truth_coupled.htm"><span class="l">Grace and Truth Coupled.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> The <b>slime</b> of sin and low passion, of selfishness and indulgence and self-ambition,<br> oozes over everything in full sight. The man's in the gutter. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../gordon/quiet talks on johns gospel/grace and truth coupled.htm</font><p><a href="/library/various/the_christian_foundation_or_scientific_and_religious_journal_v_1/the_motive_that_led_men.htm"><span class="l">The Motive that Led Men to Adopt Darwinism.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> that the original man, as such, no matter how rough and unformed, but still a man,<br> sprang immediately out of the inorganic, out of the sea or the <b>slime</b> of the <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../the motive that led men.htm</font><p><a href="/library/kingsley/andromeda_and_other_poems/andromeda.htm"><span class="l">Andromeda</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Up to the hillside vines, and the pastures skirting the woodland, Inland the floods<br> came yearly; and after the waters a monster, Bred of the <b>slime</b>, like the <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/andromeda and other poems/andromeda.htm</font><p><a href="/library/naylor/heart_talks/talk_fifty-four_two_ways_of.htm"><span class="l">Two Ways of Rising</span></a> <br><b>...</b> When it rises from the muddy pool, the stagnant pond, or the filthy gutter, it rises<br> pure and clean, leaving behind the mud, the <b>slime</b>, the offensive odors <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//christianbookshelf.org/naylor/heart talks/talk fifty-four two ways of.htm</font><p><a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_woman_should_have_been.htm"><span class="l">Whether Woman Should have Been Made from Man?</span></a> <br><b>...</b> species. Therefore, as man was made of the <b>slime</b> of the earth, so woman should<br> have been made of the same, and not from man. Objection <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether woman should have been.htm</font><p><a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_the_woman_was_formed.htm"><span class="l">Whether the Woman was Formed Immediately by God?</span></a> <br><b>...</b> of nature. Therefore God alone could produce either a man from the <b>slime</b><br> of the earth, or a woman from the rib of man. Reply to <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the woman was formed.htm</font><p><a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_the_human_body_was.htm"><span class="l">Whether the Human Body was Immediately Produced by God?</span></a> <br><b>...</b> angels' power, as, for instance, raising the dead, or giving sight to the blind:<br> and by this power He formed the body of the first man from the <b>slime</b> of the <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/...//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether the human body was.htm</font><p><a href="/library/various/the_christian_foundation_or_scientific_and_religious_journal_v_1/species_or_units_of_nature.htm"><span class="l">Species, or Units of Nature.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> The pulpy mass of flesh, or moneron, from which so much has been "evolved" was the<br> result of "the sun's rays falling upon the sea <b>slime</b>," and was and is a <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../species or units of nature.htm</font><p><a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_the_mother_of_god_2.htm"><span class="l">Whether the Mother of God was a virgin in Conceiving Christ?</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Consequently, just as it was possible for the first man to be produced, by the Divine<br> power, "from the <b>slime</b> of the earth," so too was it possible for Christ's <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether the mother of god 2.htm</font><a name="thes" id="thes"></a><div class="vheading2">Thesaurus</div><a href="/topical/s/slime.htm"><span class="l"><b>Slime</b> (6 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> The vale of Siddim was full of <b>slime</b> pits (14:10). Jochebed daubed the "ark of<br> bulrushes" with <b>slime</b> (Exodus 2:3). (see PITCH.). <b>...</b> 6. (vt) To smear with <b>slime</b>. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/s/slime.htm - 11k</font><p><a href="/topical/s/slime-pits.htm"><span class="l"><b>Slime</b>-pits (1 Occurrence)</span></a><br><b>Slime</b>-pits. <b>Slime</b>, <b>Slime</b>-pits. Slimy . Multi-Version Concordance<br><b>Slime</b>-pits (1 Occurrence). Genesis 14:10 And the vale <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/s/slime-pits.htm - 6k</font><p><a href="/topical/p/pits.htm"><span class="l">Pits (13 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia <b>SLIME</b>; <b>SLIME</b> PITS. slim, slim'-pits (chemar;<br> Septuagint asphaltos; Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/p/pits.htm - 13k</font><p><a href="/topical/s/slimy.htm"><span class="l">Slimy (1 Occurrence)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Noah Webster's Dictionary (superl.) of or pertaining to <b>slime</b>; resembling <b>slime</b>;<br> of the nature of <b>slime</b>; viscous; glutinous; also, covered or daubed with <b>slime</b><b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/s/slimy.htm - 6k</font><p><a href="/topical/s/siddim.htm"><span class="l">Siddim (3 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> It was "full of <b>slime</b>-pits" (RV, "bitumen pits"). Here Chedorlaomer and the confederate<br> kings overthrew the kings of Sodom and the cities of the plain. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/s/siddim.htm - 14k</font><p><a href="/topical/p/pitch.htm"><span class="l">Pitch (25 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> (Genesis 6:14), asphalt or bitumen in its soft state, called "<b>slime</b>" (Genesis<br> 11:3; 14:10; Exodus 2:3), found in pits near the Dead Sea (qv). <b>...</b> (see <b>SLIME</b>.). <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/p/pitch.htm - 18k</font><p><a href="/topical/d/daub.htm"><span class="l">Daub (3 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as<br> pitch, <b>slime</b>, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/d/daub.htm - 8k</font><p><a href="/topical/b/bitumen.htm"><span class="l">Bitumen (3 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Easton's Bible Dictionary Genesis 11:3, RV, margin, rendered in the AV "<b>slime</b>"),<br> a mineral pitch. <b>...</b> See also Exodus 2:3.) (see <b>SLIME</b>.). Noah Webster's Dictionary. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/b/bitumen.htm - 8k</font><p><a href="/topical/b/bulrushes.htm"><span class="l">Bulrushes (3 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b><b>Slime</b> (chemar, "bitumen"), pitch (zepheth, "pitch") was probably the sticky mud<br> of the Nile with which to this day so many things in Egypt are plastered. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/b/bulrushes.htm - 10k</font><p><a href="/topical/c/chalkstone.htm"><span class="l">Chalkstone</span></a><br><b>...</b> more commonly used in building. Even bitumen ("<b>slime</b>") appears to have been<br> used for mortar. See CLAY; LIME; <b>SLIME</b>. Alfred Ely Day. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/c/chalkstone.htm - 8k</font><p><a name="res" id="res"></a><div class="vheading2">Resources</div><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/comparative-religions.html">Is there value in studying comparative religions? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://clyx.com/term/slime.htm">Slime: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com</a><br /><br /><a href="/concordance/">Bible Concordance</a> • <a href="/dictionary/">Bible Dictionary</a> • <a href="/encyclopedia/">Bible Encyclopedia</a> • <a href="/topical/">Topical Bible</a> • <a href="/thesaurus/">Bible Thesuarus</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="cnc" id="cnc"></a><div class="vheading2">Concordance</div><span class="encheading">Slime (6 Occurrences)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/11-3.htm">Genesis 11:3</a></span><br />And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and <span class="boldtext">slime</span> had they for mortar.<br /><span class="source">(KJV JPS ASV WBS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/14-10.htm">Genesis 14:10</a></span><br />And the vale of Siddim was full of <span class="boldtext">slime</span> pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.<br /><span class="source">(KJV JPS ASV WBS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/exodus/2-3.htm">Exodus 2:3</a></span><br />And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with <span class="boldtext">slime</span> and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.<br /><span class="source">(KJV JPS ASV WBS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/job/6-6.htm">Job 6:6</a></span><br />Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg? <br /><span class="source">(See RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/job/9-31.htm">Job 9:31</a></span><br />yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me. <br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/58-8.htm">Psalms 58:8</a></span><br />Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.<br /><span class="source">(See RSV)</span><a name="sub" id="sub"></a><div class="vheading2">Subtopics</div><p class="pspc"><a href="/topical/s/slime.htm">Slime</a></p><p class="pspc"><a href="/topical/s/slime_pits.htm">Slime Pits</a></p><p class="pspc"><a href="/topical/naves/s/slime_used_at_babel.htm">Slime used at Babel</a></p><p class="pspc"><a href="/topical/naves/s/slime_used_in_noah's_ark.htm">Slime used in Noah's Ark</a></p><p class="pspc"><a href="/topical/naves/s/slime_used_in_the_ark_(small_basket)_of_moses_when_he_was_an_infant.htm">Slime used in the Ark (Small Basket) of Moses when he Was an Infant</a></p><p class="pspc"><a href="/topical/naves/s/slime--flammable.htm">Slime: Flammable</a></p><p class="pspc"><a href="/topical/naves/s/slime--the_valley_of_siddim_afforded.htm">Slime: The Valley of Siddim Afforded</a></p><a name="rel" id="rel"></a><div class="vheading2">Related Terms</div><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/s/slime-pits.htm">Slime-pits (1 Occurrence)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/p/pits.htm">Pits (13 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/s/slimy.htm">Slimy (1 Occurrence)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/s/siddim.htm">Siddim (3 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/p/pitch.htm">Pitch (25 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/d/daub.htm">Daub (3 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/b/bitumen.htm">Bitumen (3 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/b/bulrushes.htm">Bulrushes (3 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/c/chalkstone.htm">Chalkstone</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/p/pillar.htm">Pillar (72 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/v/vale.htm">Vale (20 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/s/salt.htm">Salt (45 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/g/gomor'rah.htm">Gomor'rah (23 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/f/flags.htm">Flags (9 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/r/rushes.htm">Rushes (13 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/d/daubed.htm">Daubed (9 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/p/pit.htm">Pit (110 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/b/brink.htm">Brink (11 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/c/confusion.htm">Confusion (71 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/c/clay.htm">Clay (50 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/s/slightly.htm">Slightly (2 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/t/tower.htm">Tower (74 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/a/architecture.htm">Architecture</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/a/ark.htm">Ark (212 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/t/tongues.htm">Tongues (67 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/m/moses.htm">Moses (9295 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/l/lot.htm">Lot (145 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/a/asphalt.htm">Asphalt (2 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/m/mountain.htm">Mountain (298 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/w/well.htm">Well (2882 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/b/babel.htm">Babel (3 Occurrences)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/topical/s/slightly.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Slightly"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Slightly" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/topical/s/slime_pits.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Slime Pits"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Slime Pits" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div> <div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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