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Genesis 37:25

Contemporary English Version 1995

As Joseph's brothers sat down to eat, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were loaded with all kinds of spices that they were taking to Egypt.

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Their father said: If Benjamin must go with you, take the governor a gift of some of the best things from our own country, such as perfume, honey, spices, pistachio nuts, and almonds.

When the Midianite merchants came by, Joseph's brothers took him out of the well, and for 20 pieces of silver they sold him to the Ishmaelites who took him to Egypt.

If medicine and doctors may be found in Gilead, why aren't my people healed?

Meanwhile, the Midianites had sold Joseph in Egypt to a man named Potiphar, who was the king's official in charge of the palace guard.

You drink all the wine you want and wear expensive perfume, but you don't care about the ruin of your nation.

Egypt, no medicine can heal you, not even the soothing lotion from Gilead.

An unfaithful wife says, “Sleeping with another man is as natural as eating.”

Won't you evil people learn? You refuse to pray, and you gobble up the Lord's people.

The Ishmaelites took Joseph to Egypt and sold him to Potiphar, the king's official in charge of the palace guard.

So he took some of his relatives along and chased after Jacob for seven days, before catching up with him in the hill country of Gilead.

Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagrites;

When Jacob crossed the Euphrates River and headed for the hill country of Gilead, he took with him everything he owned.

and threw him into a dry well.

Geshur and Maacah were part of this region, and so was the whole territory that King Og had ruled, that is, Gilead, Mount Hermon, and all of Bashan as far east as Salecah. Og had lived in Ashtaroth part of each year, and he had lived in Edrei the rest of the year. Og had been one of the last of the Rephaim, but Moses had defeated Sihon and Og and their people and had forced them to leave their land.

Listen to what I think about it: The palace of Judah's king is as glorious as Gilead or Lebanon's highest peaks. But it will be as empty as a ghost-town when I'm through with it.

The eastern border will begin on the border between the two kingdoms of Hauran and Damascus. It will run south along the Jordan River, which separates the territories of Gilead and Israel, and it will end at the Dead Sea near the town of Tamar.

My bride, my very own, I come to my garden and enjoy its spices. I eat my honeycomb and honey; I drink my wine and milk. Eat and drink until you are drunk with love.

You rich people lounge around on beds with ivory posts, while dining on the meat of your lambs and calves.




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