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     * they sat.
     # Es 3:15; Ps 14:4; Pr 30:20; Am 6:6|
     * Ishmeelites.
     # 28,36; 16:11,12; 25:1-4,16-18; 31:23; Ps 83:6|
     * Gilead.
     # 31:21; 43:11; Jer 8:22|
     * spicery.
       {Nechoth,} is rendered by the LXX. "incense;" Syriac,
       "resin;" Samaritan, "balsam;"  Acquila, "storax;" which is
       followed by Bochart.  This drug is abundant in Syria, and
       here Moses joins with it resin, honey, and myrrh; which
       agrees with the nature of the storax, which is the resin of a
       tree of the same name, of a reddish colour, and peculiarly
       pleasant fragrance.

     * balm
       {Tzeri,} which in Arabic, as a verb, is to flow, seems to be
       a common name, as balm or balsam with us, for many of those
       oily, resinous substances, which flow spontaneously, or by
       incision, from various trees or plants; accordingly the
       ancients have generally interpreted it resin.

     * myrrh.
       {Lot,} is probably, as Junius, De Dieu, Celsius, and Ursinus
       contend, the same as the Arabic {ladan}, Greek [ladanon,] and
       Latin {ladanum}.