¹⁴ Reuben went out during the wheat harvest and found some mandrakes in the field.^(A) When he brought them to his mother Leah, Rachel asked, ‘Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.’

²² ‘Observe the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering^[a] at the turn of the agricultural year.

¹³ The people of Beth-shemesh were harvesting wheat in the valley, and when they looked up and saw the ark, they were overjoyed to see it.

¹⁷ Isn’t the wheat harvest today?^(A) I will call on the Lord, and he will send thunder and rain so that you will recognise what an immense evil you committed in the Lord’s sight by requesting a king for yourselves.’^(B)