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Lime
Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary
or שיר , Deuteronomy 27:2; Deuteronomy 27:4; Isaiah 33:12; Amos 2:1; a soft friable substance, obtained by calcining or burning stones, shells, or the like. From Isaiah 33:12 , it appears that it was made in a kiln lighted with thorn bushes; and from Amos 2:1 , that bones were sometimes calcined for lime. The use of it was for plaster or cement, the first mention of which is in Deuteronomy 27, where Moses directed the elders of the people, saying, "Keep all the commandments which I command you this day. And it shall be on the day when you shall pass over Jordan unto the land which the Lord your God giveth you, that you shall set up great stones, and plaster them with plaster, and shall write upon them all the words of this law," &c. The book of the law, in order to render it the more sacred, was deposited beside the ark of the covenant. The guardians of the law, to whom was entrusted the duty of making faithful transcripts of it, were the priests. But Moses did not account even this precaution sufficient for the due preservation of his law in its original purity; for he commanded that it should beside be engraven on stones, and these stones kept on a mountain near Sichem, in order that a genuine exemplar of it might be transmitted even to the latest generations.
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Watson, Richard. Entry for 'Lime'. Richard Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/wtd/l/lime.html. 1831-2.
