LIME — the burnt limestone that, mixed with water, makes a white plaster, and the surface the law is to be written on at Deuteronomy 27:2 and 27:4. The verb there is made from the noun, ve-sadta otam ba-sid, you shall lime them with lime; this translation prints coat them with lime. ⭐ The word stands in four verses of the Hebrew Bible, and the other two are both about burning: Isaiah 33:12, where the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime, and Amos 2:1, where Moab’s crime is that he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime (neither yet on these pages). What a kiln makes of a body is what the covenant is written in. ⚠ The shelf splits on the material: the KJV reads ‘plaister’, the ASV, Geneva, Douay and NIV ‘plaster’, the NWT 1984 and TLB ‘lime’; the Spanish shelf reads «cal» in the RV 1909, RV60, NVI and TNM 1987, and the TNM 2019 alone «yeso», gypsum. → first discussed at Deut 27:2