Genesis Chapter 37 verse 25 Holy Bible
And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
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Then seating themselves, they took their meal: and looking up, they saw a travelling band of Ishmaelites, coming from Gilead on their way to Egypt, with spices and perfumes on their camels.
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And they sat down to eat bread; and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites came from Gilead; and their camels bore tragacanth, and balsam, and ladanum -- going to carry [it] down to Egypt.
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And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
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And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and behold, a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead, with their camels bearing spicery, and balm, and myrrh, going to carry them down to Egypt.
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They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
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And they sit down to eat bread, and they lift up their eyes, and look, and lo, a company of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, and their camels bearing spices, and balm, and myrrh, going to take `them' down to Egypt.
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Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(25) A company of Ishmeelites.--Dothan was situated on the great caravan line by which the products of India and Western Asia were brought to Egypt. As the eastern side of Canaan is covered by the great Arabian desert, the caravans had to travel in a north-westernly direction until, having forded the Euphrates, they could strike across from Tadmor to Gilead. The route thence led them over the Jordan at Beisan, and so southward to Egypt. For "Ishmeelites," we have "Midianites," Heb., Medyanim, in Genesis 37:28, and Medanites, Heb., Medanim, in Genesis 37:36; but the Targum and the Syriac, instead of Ishmeelites, read Arabs. Midian was a son of Abraham by Keturah, and Ishmael was his son by Hagar. But probably these merchants were descended from neither by blood, but belonged to some branch of the Canaanites, who were the great traders of ancient times, and which Ishmael and Midian had compelled to submit to their sway. (But see Note on Genesis 25:2.) The Jewish interpreters are reduced to great straits in reconciling these names, and even assert that Joseph was sold three times. Really Ishmeelites, Midianites, and Medanites are all one and the same, if we regard them as bearing the names only politically.It is remarkable that the Egyptians never took part in the carrying trade. Even the navigation of the Red Sea they left to the Ph?nicians, Israelites, and Syrians, though Psammetichus, Pharaoh-Necho, and Apries tried to induce the Egyptians to take to maritime pursuits. Their products were corn, stuffs of byssus and other materials, and carpets; but the exportation of these goods they left to foreign traders.Spicery, and balm, and myrrh.--The first was probably gum tragacanth, though some think that it was storax, the gum of the styrax tree (see Genesis 30:37). "Balm," that�is, balsam, was probably the resin of the balsamodendron Gileadense, a tree which grows abundantly in Gilead, and of which the gum was greatly in use for healing wounds. "Myrrh" was certainly ladanum, the gum of the cistus rose (cistus creticus). As all these were products of Palestine valued in Egypt, Jacob included them in his present to the governor there (Genesis 43:11). . . . Parallel Commentaries ...HebrewAnd as they sat downוַיֵּשְׁבוּ֮ (way·yê·šə·ḇū)Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine pluralStrong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marryto eatלֶֽאֱכָל־ (le·’ĕ·ḵāl-)Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive constructStrong's 398: To eata meal,לֶחֶם֒ (le·ḥem)Noun - masculine singularStrong's 3899: Food, bread, grainthey looked upוַיִּשְׂא֤וּ (way·yiś·’ū)Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine pluralStrong's 5375: To lift, carry, takeand sawוְהִנֵּה֙ (wə·hin·nêh)Conjunctive waw | InterjectionStrong's 2009: Lo! behold!a caravanאֹרְחַ֣ת (’ō·rə·ḥaṯ)Noun - feminine singular constructStrong's 736: A traveling company, caravanof Ishmaelitesיִשְׁמְעֵאלִ֔ים (yiš·mə·‘ê·lîm)Noun - proper - masculine pluralStrong's 3459: Ishmaelites -- descendant of Ishmaelcomingבָּאָ֖ה (bā·’āh)Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singularStrong's 935: To come in, come, go in, gofrom Gilead.מִגִּלְעָ֑ד (mig·gil·‘āḏ)Preposition-m | Noun - proper - feminine singularStrong's 1568: Gilead -- a region in Palestine, also the name of several IsraelitesTheir camelsוּגְמַלֵּיהֶ֣ם (ū·ḡə·mal·lê·hem)Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine pluralStrong's 1581: A camelwere carryingנֹֽשְׂאִ֗ים (nō·śə·’îm)Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine pluralStrong's 5375: To lift, carry, takespices,נְכֹאת֙ (nə·ḵōṯ)Noun - feminine singularStrong's 5219: (a spice) perhaps tragacanth gumbalm,וּצְרִ֣י (ū·ṣə·rî)Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singularStrong's 6875: Distillation, balsamand myrrhוָלֹ֔ט (wā·lōṭ)Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singularStrong's 3910: A gum, ladanumon their wayהוֹלְכִ֖ים (hō·wl·ḵîm)Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine pluralStrong's 1980: To go, come, walkdownלְהוֹרִ֥יד (lə·hō·w·rîḏ)Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive constructStrong's 3381: To come or go down, descendto Egypt.מִצְרָֽיְמָה׃ (miṣ·rā·yə·māh)Noun - proper - feminine singular | third person feminine singularStrong's 4714: Egypt -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their country in Northwest AfricaJump to PreviousBalm Bearing Bread Camels Caravan Carry Company Eat Egypt Eyes Gilead Ishmaelites Lifted Meal Myrrh Raised Sat Spicery Spices
