and take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land.’
The land of Egypt is before you. Settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land. Let them settle in the land of Goshen, and if you know any able men among them, put them in charge of my livestock.”
May God give you of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth and plenty of grain and wine.
He makes peace in your borders; he fills you with the finest of the wheat.
Out of all the gifts to you, you shall present every contribution due to the Lord; from each its best part is to be dedicated.’
All the best of the oil and all the best of the wine and of the grain, the firstfruits of what they give to the Lord, I give to you.
and the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley, will be like a first-ripe fig before the summer: when someone sees it, he swallows it as soon as it is in his hand.
Ah, the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim, and the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley of those overcome with wine!
But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”
Curds from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of Bashan and goats, with the very finest of the wheat— and you drank foaming wine made from the blood of the grape.
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