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 spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

To eat bread. How could they do this while their innocent brother was praying and lamenting! (chap. xlii. 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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