...the sons of Israel sat down in Dothau to eat bread, " and they lifted up their eyes, " and looked, and behold a company of Ishmaelites came from " Gilead with their camels, bearing spicery (Gum Tragacanth), " and balm (produced by Balsamodendron Opobalsamum and " Gileadense), and myrrh,...

...clear. Arrived at this -point in the story — " and they sat down to eat bread " — we find that they " lifted up their eyes, and behold a company of Ishmaelites came." Here Judah's interposition — the proposal to sell to the Ishmaelites, in which his brethren " were...

...we find in the scriptures, is when Joseph was sold by his brothers to some Jshmaelite merchants who came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery, and balm, and myrrh, and carrying it down to Egypt (Gen. xxxvii.). At that time, although Judrca abounded in fragrant plants...

...Palestine for products of a special nature, as we may gather from the account of the Ishmaelites who " came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down TEK1TTY. 189 to Egypt" (Gen. xxxvii. 25) ; and from the exclamation of the prophet, " Is there no balm...

...brethren sat down to eat bread ; and, lifting up their eyes, they beheld a company of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, with their camels, bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to Egypt. Judah, one of the brethren, began to relent, as Reuben had already done. " Come," he says, "...

...the merchants were conveying to Egypt when Joseph was sold to them by his envious elder brothers : " And behold a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead, with their camels, bearing nekhoth and tsiri, and lv(, going to carry it down to Egypt . . . and they sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites...

...earliest times an article of commerce carried by the trading caravans of Egypt (Genesis xxviii. 25) — " A company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery, and balm, and myrrh, carrying it down to Egypt." Ezekiel refers to it (xxvii. 17) as one of the four things with which the...

...was good anywhere. The frankincense and myrrh were current in Egypt, since there passed by Midianites with their camels, bearing spicery, and balm, and myrrh, going to carry it down to that land of many shrines and many plagues. The Magi did not serve the Lord their God of that which...

...father and of God, and therefore envied him. They sold him to some Midianites, merchantmen, who with a "company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead, with their...spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down into Egypt." They sold him for twenty pieces, or shekels, of silver, or about fifteen dollars. Joseph...

...the time of Joseph — probably about BC 1600 — we find a company of the Midianites on their way from Gilead, with their camels bearing spicery, and balm, and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.1 Elsewhere we hear of the ' travelling companies of the Dedanim,' * of the men of Sheba bringing...