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They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
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Verse 25. To eat bread. How could they do this while their innocent brother was praying and lamenting! Calmet. 42:21. Bible.—Some: a caravan of merchants. D.—Balm, or rosin; “That of Syria resembles attic honey.” Plin.—Myrrh, (stacten); Hebrew Lot: “drops of myrrh or laudanum, or of the Lotus tree.” Calmet.
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