So when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there the first time.

When they had eaten enough to be satisfied, they lightened the ship by throwing the wheat into the sea.

But he said, ‘No, since in gathering the weeds you may uproot the wheat with them.

By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

“Simon, Simon, pay attention! Satan has demanded to have you all, to sift you like wheat,

But while everyone was sleeping, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.

Then he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare seed – perhaps of wheat or something else.

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire.”

His winnowing fork is in his hand to clean out his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire.”

Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ The second man replied, ‘A hundred measures of wheat.’ The manager said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’

I tell you the solemn truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it produces much grain.

Then I heard something like a voice from among the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat will cost a day’s pay and three quarts of barley will cost a day’s pay. But do not damage the olive oil and the wine!”

cinnamon, spice, incense, perfumed ointment, frankincense, wine, olive oil and costly flour, wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and four-wheeled carriages, slaves and human lives.

Let both grow together until the harvest. At harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned, but then gather the wheat into my barn.”’”