Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 37:25

25 And they sate down to eat bread : and they lift up their eyes and looked, and behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead , with their camels, bearing spicery, and balm , and myrrhe, going to carry it down to Egypt.

To refresh themselves, their consciences being stupified; and their hearts hardned against their brother, notwithstanding all his most passionate intreaties to them, Gen. 42. 21.

The Posterity of Ishmael. See Gen. 25. 18.

A famous place for balm and other excellent commodities, and for the confluence of Merchants. See Ier. 8. 22. and 22. 6.

Or rosin, as the antient and divers other translatours render it.

Marginal references: See v. 28, 36.