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Genesis 37:25
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23 So it came to pass, when Joseph had come to his brothers, that they astripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him.  
24 Then they took him and cast him into a pit. And the pit was empty; there was no water in it.
25 aAnd they sat down to eat a meal. Then they lifted their eyes and looked, and there was a company of bIshmaelites, coming from Gilead with their camels, bearing spices, cbalm, and myrrh, on their way to carry them down to Egypt.  
26 So Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is there if we kill our brother and aconceal his blood?  
27 Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and alet not our hand be upon him, for he is bour brother and cour flesh.” And his brothers listened.  
28 Then aMidianite traders passed by; so the brothers pulled Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, band sold him to the Ishmaelites for ctwenty shekels of silver. And they took Joseph to Egypt.  
29 Then Reuben returned to the pit, and indeed Joseph was not in the pit; and he atore his clothes.  
30 And he returned to his brothers and said, “The lad ais no more; and I, where shall I go?”  
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Genesis 37:25

They sat down to eat bread - Every act is perfectly in character, and describes forcibly the brutish and diabolic nature of their ruthless souls.

A company of Ishmaelites - We may naturally suppose that this was a caravan, composed of different tribes that, for their greater safety, were traveling together, and of which Ishmaelites and Midianites made the chief. In the Chaldee they are called Arabians, which, from arab , to mingle, was in all probability used by the Targumist as the word Arabians is used among us, which comprehends a vast number of clans, or tribes of people. The Jerusalem Targum calls them Sarkin , what we term Saracens. In the Persian, the clause stands thus: karavanee iskmaaleem araban aya . "A caravan of Ishmaelite Arabs came." This seems to give the true sense.




Other Adam Clarke entries containing Genesis 37:25:

Genesis 38:1
Ezekiel 39:11

 

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