May God give you heaven’s dew and earth’s richness— an abundance of grain and new wine.

Isaac answered Esau, “I have made him lord over you and have made all his relatives his servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. So what can I possibly do for you, my son?”

As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he hurried to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, and there Jacob told him all these things.

Why did you run off secretly and deceive me? Why didn’t you tell me, so I could send you away with joy and singing to the music of timbrels and harps?

He fell asleep again and had a second dream: Seven heads of grain, healthy and good, were growing on a single stalk.

“In my dream I saw seven heads of grain, full and good, growing on a single stalk.

When the news reached Pharaoh’s palace that Joseph’s brothers had come, Pharaoh and all his officials were pleased.

To each of them he gave new clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver and five sets of clothes.

Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt.

The Song of Moses and Miriam

Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the Lord: “I will sing to the Lord, for he is highly exalted. Both horse and driver he has hurled into the sea.

Miriam sang to them: “Sing to the Lord, for he is highly exalted. Both horse and driver he has hurled into the sea.”

But I will not drive them out in a single year, because the land would become desolate and the wild animals too numerous for you.

At these two corners they must be double from the bottom all the way to the top and fitted into a single ring; both shall be like that.

Moses replied: “It is not the sound of victory, it is not the sound of defeat; it is the sound of singing that I hear.”

The New Stone Tablets

The Lord said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

At these two corners the frames were double from the bottom all the way to the top and fitted into a single ring; both were made alike.

“‘If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits to the Lord, offer crushed heads of new grain roasted in the fire.

Then they are to take other stones to replace these and take new clay and plaster the house.

You must not eat any bread, or roasted or new grain, until the very day you bring this offering to your God. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.

Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the Lord.

You will still be eating last year’s harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new.

Also at your times of rejoicing—your appointed festivals and New Moon feasts—you are to sound the trumpets over your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, and they will be a memorial for you before your God. I am the Lord your God.”

When they reached the Valley of Eshkol, they cut off a branch bearing a single cluster of grapes. Two of them carried it on a pole between them, along with some pomegranates and figs.

But if the Lord brings about something totally new, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them, with everything that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the realm of the dead, then you will know that these men have treated the Lord with contempt.”

“I give you all the finest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain they give the Lord as the firstfruits of their harvest.