And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. - Genesis 11:3
Bitumen was used for mortar in the building of the tower of Babel. (Genesis 11:3)
The Valley of Siddim was full of bitumen pits, and Sodom and Gomorrah's men fell into them as they fled during the War of Nine Kings. (Genesis 14:10)