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They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
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The Callousness of Sin
Commentators are unanimous in highlighting the brothers' shocking cruelty. After throwing Joseph into a pit to die, "they sat down to eat bread." John Calvin calls this an "astonishing barbarity," showing how unchecked sin can harden the heart to a state of complete insensibility and lack of remorse.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
17. דתין dotayı̂n Dothain, “two wells?” (Gesenius)
25. נכאת neko't “tragacanth” or goat’s-tho…
19th Century
Anglican
A company of Ishmeelites. —Dothan was situated on the great caravan line by which the products of India and Western Asia were brou…
16th Century
Protestant
And they sat down to eat bread. This was an astonishing barbarity, that they could quietly feast while, in intention, they were guilty of …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And they sat down to eat bread Not at all concerned at what they had done, nor in the least grieved for the afflicti…
They threw Joseph into a pit, to perish there with hunger and cold; so cruel were their tender mercies. They slighted him when he was in distress, …
