Dung:
The uses of dung were two‐fold-as manure and as fuel. The manure consisted either of straw steeped in liquid manure (Isaiah 25:10) or the sweepings (Isaiah 5:25) of the streets and roads, which were carefully removed from about the houses, and collected in heaps outside the walls of the towns at fixed spots-hence the dung‐gate at Jerusalem-and thence removed in due course to the fields. The difficulty of procuring fuel in Syria, Arabia and Egypt has made dung in all ages valuable as a substitute. It was probably used for heating ovens and for baking cakes (Ezra 4:12; 4:15) the equable heat which it produced adapting it peculiarly for the latter operation. Cow's and camels dung is still used for a similar purpose by the Bedouins.
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