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Genesis 37:25

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

They sat down to eat a meal,  and when they looked up, there was a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead.  Their camels were carrying aromatic gum, balsam, and resin, going down to Egypt.

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Then their father Israel said to them, ‘If it must be so, then do this: put some of the best products of the land in your packs and take them down to the man as a gift #– #a little balsam and a little honey, aromatic gum and resin, pistachios and almonds.


When Midianite  traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took Joseph to Egypt.


Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? So why has the healing of my dear people not come about?


Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and the captain of the guards.


They drink wine by the bowlful and anoint themselves with the finest oils but do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph.


Go up to Gilead and get balm, Virgin Daughter Egypt! You have multiplied remedies in vain; there is no healing for you.


This is the way of an adulteress: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I’ve done nothing wrong.’


Now Joseph had been taken to Egypt. An Egyptian named Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and the captain of the guards, bought him from the Ishmaelites  who had brought him there.


So he took his relatives with him, pursued Jacob for seven days, and overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.


The couriers left, spurred on by royal command, and the law was issued in the fortress of Susa.  The king and Haman sat down to drink, while the city of Susa was in confusion.


He fled with all his possessions, crossed the Euphrates, and headed for  the hill country of Gilead.


Then they took him and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty, without water.


also Gilead  and the territory of the Geshurites and Maacathites, all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah #– #


For this is what the Lord says concerning the house of the king of Judah: ‘You are like Gilead  to me, or the summit of Lebanon, but I will certainly turn you into a wilderness, uninhabited cities.


On the east side it will run between Hauran and Damascus, along the Jordan between Gilead and the land of Israel; you will measure from the northern border to the eastern sea.  This will be the eastern side.


I have come to my garden #– #my sister, my bride. I gather  my myrrh with my spices. I eat my honeycomb with my honey. I drink my wine with my milk. Eat, friends! Drink, be intoxicated with caresses!  ,


They lie on beds inlaid with ivory, sprawled out on their couches, and dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.





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