you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,’ so that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, because every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”
The land of Egypt is before you. Have your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Have them dwell in the land of Goshen, and if you know any capable men among them, then put them in charge over my livestock.”
Woe to the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower which is at the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!
and the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is at the head of the fertile valley, shall be like a first-ripe fig before the summer, which when one sees, while it is yet in his hand, he eats it up.
All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of what they will offer to the Lord, those have I given to you.
butter from the herd, and milk from the flock, along with the fat of lambs, and rams of the breed from Bashan, and goats, with the best of the kernels of wheat; you drank the pure blood of the grape.