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Genesis 37:25

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37:25When they sat down to eat their food, they looked up57 and saw58 a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh down to Egypt.59

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Footnotes

  1. 57 Heb “lifted up their eyes.”
  2. 58 Heb “and they saw and look.” By the use of וְהִנֵּה (véhinneh, “and look”), the narrator invites the reader to see the event through the eyes of the brothers.
  3. 59 Heb “and their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh, going to go down to Egypt.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

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

NIVNew International Version (2011)

As they sat down to eat their meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were loaded with spices, balm and myrrh, and they were on their way to take them down to Egypt.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

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.

NLTNew Living Translation

Then, just as they were sitting down to eat, they looked up and saw a caravan of camels in the distance coming toward them. It was a group of Ishmaelite traders taking a load of gum, balm, and aromatic resin from Gilead down to Egypt.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Then they sat down to eat some food. And they lifted up their eyes and looked, and behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead. And their camels were carrying aromatic gum and balm and spices on the way to Egypt.

KJV 1900King James Version

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.