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This was used to cover the walls of houses, Lev. 14: 42-48; Dan. 5: 5; and was also spread on large stones, on which the law could be inscribed. Deut. 27: 2-4; Joshua 8: 32. It may have been compounded of different substances for divers purposes. In Isaiah 38: 21 plaister is used in a medical sense as spread on a boil.