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Brick
People's Dictionary of the Bible
or Brick. In Scripture bricks are frequently and early mentioned, as well as the material with which they were cemented. Genesis 11:3. Both the "slime" or bitumen, and the clay of which the bricks were formed, were abundant in the Mesopotamian plain. Bricks appear to have been, in Egypt and at Nineveh, very generally sun-dried: for the Babylonian buildings they were more commonly burnt in kilns. The clay was sometimes mixed with chopped straw to increase the tenacity and compactness of the bricks; and this was the more needful when the material was the Kile mud. Exodus 1:14; Exodus 5:6-19. Egyptian bricks, with dates upon them, are sail preserved as fit for use as when they were first made. They are of a large size, varying from 14¼ to 20 inches in length; 6½ to 8¾ inches in breadth; and in thickness 4½ to 7 inches.
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Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Brick'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/rpd/b/brick.html. 1893.
