Barley, or some other grain such as wheat, is what the text intends the reader to understand.) It would probably have been impolite not to serve a portion of the gifts rendered from the brothers' homeland: the balm from Gilead (in Hebrew, tsori), in this instance a kind of pistachio oil from the mastic tree;1 honey (in Hebrew, debash), the kind that was cultivated from bees; spices (in Hebrew, nek