| 206 pages
...people; for in the year 1727 AC Joseph was sold by his brethren to " a company of Ishmaelites, who came from Gilead with their camels, bearing spicery, and balm, and myrrh, going down into Egypt :" and we likewise read of Solomon having a considerable traffic with the •f Arabians.... | |
| 1823 - 130 pages
...up their eyes and looked, and behold, a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead, with their camel* bearing spicery, and balm, and myrrh, going to , carry it down to Egypt. And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?... | |
| Edward Daniel Clarke - 1823 - 490 pages
...Genesis, xxxvii. (9) " And, behold, a company of Jshmeelites came from Gilead, with their camels hearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to EGYPT." Ibid. v. 25. (10) Ibid. ver. 36. herds were feeding, as of old ' : nor in the simple garb of the shepherds... | |
| Thaddeus Mason Harris - 1824 - 474 pages
...flourished, and had become an article of commerce in Gilead, Jong before the period he mentions91. " A company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their...going to carry it down to Egypt." Gen. xxxvii. 25. Now the spicery, or pepper, was certainly purchased by the Ishmaelites at the mouth of the Red Sea, where... | |
| Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy - 1824 - 392 pages
...of ma!!ng adventurers who had made an incursion for "plunder, but to a company of merchants, who " came from Gilead with their camels, bearing spicery,...balm, and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt." The very articles of their traffic prove that they must have had a commercial intercourse with India,... | |
| William Carpenter - 1825 - 698 pages
...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. And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit u it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood 1... | |
| 1859 - 632 pages
...After these wicked men had cast their innocent brother into the pit, they sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and behold a...their camels bearing spicery, and balm, and myrrh to Egypt. An! the Lord had sent them that way. And so He ofttimes does in our experience ; He raiseth... | |
| George Townsend - 1826 - 902 pages
...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. 26 And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood... | |
| Andrew Thomson (of Bristol) - 1826 - 394 pages
...of him ? A. His brethren, who had sat down to eat bread, seeing a caravan of Ishmaelite Arabs coming from Gilead, " with their camels bearing spicery, and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt,"t hastily adopted a proposal of Judah's, and sold him in the absence of Reuben to these merchants.... | |
| Esther Copley - 1828 - 464 pages
...period. When Joseph was sold by his brethren, it was to " a company of Ishmaelitish merchants, who came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery,...going to carry it down to Egypt," Gen. xxxvii. 25. Whenever this tree might be first cultivated in Judea, it appears evident that its origin was in Sabea.... | |
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