Gen. 11:3, R.V., margin, rendered in the A.V. “slime”), a mineral pitch. With this the ark was pitched (6:14. See also Ex. 2:3.) (See SLIME.)
Bitumen
Bitumen is the black, sticky pitch that the KJV calls slime. At Babel, builders use “brick for stone, and slime had they for morter” (Genesis 11:3), joining bricks the way stone would be joined. When four kings fight five in Abraham’s day, “the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits” (Genesis 14:10), and the fleeing kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fell into them. The word names ordinary earth-material, used for building in one story and a trap in the other. Genesis 11:1-9 is the clearest place to read.
3 verses
Genesis
Genesis 11:3
And 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 morter.
Genesis 14:10
And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.
Job
Job 29:6
When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
From Easton's Bible Dictionary
Matthew George Easton, 1897