Mortar

“The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil.”

“Though you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his folly will not depart from him.”

“and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.”

“And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.”

“So different stones must be obtained to replace the contaminated ones, as well as additional mortar to replaster the house.”

“It must be torn down with its stones, its timbers, and all its plaster, and taken outside the city to an unclean place.”

“Her prophets whitewash these deeds by false visions and lying divinations, saying, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says,’ when the LORD has not spoken.”

“Draw your water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses. Work the clay and tread the mortar; repair the brick kiln!”