Genesis 37:25 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 37:25

And as they sat down to eat a meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh on their way down to Egypt.

BSB

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

They sat down to eat bread - Every act is perfectly in character, and describes forcibly the brutish and diabolic nature of their ruthless souls. A company of Ishmaelites - We may naturally suppose that this was a caravan, composed of different tribes that, for their greater safety, were traveling together, and of which Ishmaelites and Midianites made the chief. In the Chaldee they are called Arabians, which, from ערב arab, to mingle, was in all probability used by the Targumist as the word Arabians is used among us, which comprehends a vast number of clans, or tribes of people.

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Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֵּשְׁבוּ֮	vai.ye.she.Vu	and they sat down	H3427 →
לֶֽאֱכָל־	le.'e.khol-	to eat	H398 →
לֶחֶם֒	le.Chem	bread	H3899 →
וַיִּשְׂא֤וּ	vai.yis.'U	and they lifted up	H5375 →
עֵֽינֵיהֶם֙	'ei.nei.Hem	eyes their	H5869 →
וַיִּרְא֔וּ	vai.yir.'U	and they saw	H7200 →
וְהִנֵּה֙	ve.hi.Neh	and there!	H2009 →
אֹרְחַ֣ת	'o.re.Chat	a caravan of	H736 →
יִשְׁמְעֵאלִ֔ים	yish.me.'e.Lim	Ishmaelites	H3459 →
בָּאָ֖ה	ba.'Ah	[was] coming	H935 →
מִגִּלְעָ֑ד	mi.gil.'Ad	from Gilead	H1568 →
וּגְמַלֵּיהֶ֣ם	u.ge.ma.lei.Hem	and camels their	H1581 →
נֹֽשְׂאִ֗ים	no.se.'Im	[were] carrying	H5375 →
נְכֹאת֙	ne.khoT	spice	H5219 →
וּצְרִ֣י	u.tze.Ri	and balm	H6875 →
וָלֹ֔ט	va.Lot	and myrrh	H3910 →
הוֹלְכִ֖ים	hol.Khim	traveling	H1980 →
לְהוֹרִ֥יד	le.ho.Rid	to take [them] down	H3381 →
מִצְרָֽיְמָה׃	mitz.Ra.ye.mah	Egypt towards	H4714 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 8:22
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
leads to
- Jeremiah 46:11
  Go up to Gilead for balm, O Virgin Daughter of Egypt! In vain you try many remedies, but for you there is no healing.
- Jeremiah 51:8
  Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been shattered. Wail for her; get her balm for her pain; perhaps she can be healed.
- Jeremiah 30:12–17
  For this is what the LORD says: “Your injury is incurable; your wound is grievous.
- Luke 8:43
  including a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. She had spent all her money on physicians, but no one was able to heal her.
- Luke 5:31–32
  Jesus answered, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
Through
Jeremiah 46:11
Go up to Gilead for balm, O Virgin Daughter of Egypt! In vain you try many remedies, but for you there is no healing.
leads to
- Jeremiah 8:22
  Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Genesis 37:28
So when the Midianite traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.
leads to
- Acts 7:9
  Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him
- Psalms 105:17
  He sent a man before them— Joseph, sold as a slave.