Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.

Now the Valley of Siddim was full of asphalt pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled; some fell there, and the remainder fled to the mountains.

But when she could no longer hide him, she took an ark of bulrushes for him, daubed it with asphalt and pitch, put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.

Also Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,

They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; The poison of asps is under their lips. Selah

“Their throat is an open tomb; With their tongues they have practiced deceit”; “The poison of asps is under their lips”;

that you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,