Genesis 37:25 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then they sat down to eat, and looking up they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, with their camels carrying gum, balm, and resin, on their way to carry it down to Egypt.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Then they sat down to eat their lunch. When they looked up, behold, they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites [mixed Arabians] coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing gum [of the styrax tree], balm (balsam), and myrrh or ladanum, going on their way to carry them down to Egypt.

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

When they sat down to eat, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, with camels carrying sweet resin, medicinal resin, and fragrant resin on their way down to Egypt.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And sitting down to eat bread, they saw some Ishmaelites, travelers coming from Gilead, with their camels, carrying spices, and resin, and oil of myrrh into Egypt.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And sitting down to eat bread, they saw some Ismaelites on their way coming from Galaad, with their camels, carrying spices, and balm, and myrrh to Egypt.

Genesis 37:25 Cross References

Genesis 31:21

So he fled with all that he had; starting out he crossed the Euphrates and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.

Genesis 31:23

So he took his kinsfolk with him and pursued him for seven days until he caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.

Genesis 37:24

and they took him and threw him into a pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it.

Genesis 37:28

When some Midianite traders passed by, they drew Joseph up, lifting him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they took Joseph to Egypt.

Genesis 37:36

Meanwhile the Midianites had sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard.

Genesis 39:1

Now Joseph was taken down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there.

Genesis 43:11

Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: take some of the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry them down as a present to the man: a little balm and a little honey, gum, resin, pistachio nuts, and almonds.

Esther 3:15

The couriers went quickly by order of the king, and the decree was issued in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was thrown into confusion.

Psalm 14:4

Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the Lord?

Psalm 83:6

the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,

Proverbs 30:20

This is the way of an adulteress: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, “I have done no wrong.”

Song of Solomon 5:1

I come to my garden, my sister, my bride; I gather my myrrh with my spice; I eat my honeycomb with my honey; I drink my wine with my milk. Eat, friends, drink, and be drunk with love.

Jeremiah 22:6

For thus says the Lord concerning the house of the king of Judah: You are like Gilead to me, like the summit of Lebanon, but I swear that I will make you a desert, uninhabited cities.

Jeremiah 46:11

Go up to Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter Egypt! In vain you have used many medicines; there is no healing for you.

Jeremiah 8:22

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?

Ezekiel 47:18

On the east side, between Hauran and Damascus; along the Jordan between Gilead and the land of Israel; to the eastern sea and as far as Tamar. This shall be the east side.

Amos 6:4

Woe to those who lie on beds of ivory and lounge on their couches and eat lambs from the flock and calves from the stall,

Amos 6:6

who drink wine from bowls and anoint themselves with the finest oils but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!

Joshua 13:11

and Gilead, and the region of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;