They sat down to eat bread, to refresh themselves, their consciences being stupified, and their hearts hardened against their brother, notwithstanding all his most passionate entreaties to them, Genesis 42:21. Ishmeelites; the posterity of Ishmael. See Genesis 25:18. Gilead, a famous place for balm, and other excellent commodities, and for the confluence of merchants. See Jeremiah 8:22, Jeremiah 22:6. Balm, or rosin, as the ancient and divers other translators render it.
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Genesis 37:25
25 And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.