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Gen_47:17 And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread [in exchange] for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.
Ver. 17. And Joseph gave them bread in exchange,] An ancient and yet usual way of traffic, with savages and barbarians especially; as in Virginia, &c., where they usually change, as Glaueus did with Diomedes, ÷ñõóåá ÷áëêåéùí . {a}
{a} Homeri Ilias, lib. vi.