| Genesis 37:25
| And sitting down to eat bread, they saw some Ismaelites on their way coming from Galaad, with their camels, carrying spices, and balm, and myrrh to Egypt.
| To eat bread. How could they do this while their innocent brother was praying and lamenting! (chap. 42:21.) (Haydock) --- Some: a caravan of merchants. (Du Hamel) --- Balm, or rosin; "that of Syria resembles attic honey." (Pliny, Natural History) --- Myrrh, (stacten); Hebrew, Lot: "drops of myrrh or laudanum, or of the Lotus tree." (Calmet)
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