Walker also cites Parkinson, the 16th century herbalist who noted that the bark of the tree was cut and its gum oozed out forming white looking "pearls" that soon harden. They are waxy and transparent like pearls. Egyptian women carried little pouches filled with pieces of the bdellium for the scent.
Gen 2:12-13 (KJV)
And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
Num 11:7 (KJV)
And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.
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