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Gen.43:11. “And take gifts to that man: some resin and honey, incense, myrrh oil, turpentine wood and nuts.” or, as Aquila and Symmachus translated, “almond.” I included this verse in my work so that the reader would know that where the word “incense” appears in our books, in the Hebrew books there is necotha (נְכֹ ֣ את), which Aquila translated as “styrax.” Therefore, now it is absolutely clear to us that the house nechota, which we read about in Isaiah (Isaiah 39:2) (in the Synodal translation - “house of treasures.” - Translator’s note), is a room for storing incense, or styrax, because various aromatic substances were stored there. Gen.43:34. “And they drank and became drunk with him.” A peculiarity of the Hebrew language is that it uses the word “intoxication” instead of “abundance”, as, for example, in the verse where it is said: “From its drops the blossoming one will be drunk” (Ps. 64:11), presumably the land abundantly watered by rains.