AGRICULTURE

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• Genesis 2:15

  Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

• Genesis 3:19

  By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

• Genesis 3:23

  Therefore Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

• Genesis 4:2

  Again she gave birth, to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

• Genesis 8:22

  While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

• Genesis 9:20

  Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.

• Exodus 20:9

  You shall labor six days, and do all your work,

• Exodus 22:5

  “If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten, and lets his animal loose, and it grazes in another man’s field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field, and from the best of his own vineyard.

• Exodus 22:6

  “If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

• Exodus 23:10

  “For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase,

• Exodus 23:11

  but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

• Exodus 23:12

  “Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant, and the alien may be refreshed.

• Exodus 34:21

  “Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

• Exodus 34:22

  “You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year’s end.

• Leviticus 19:9

  “‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.

• Leviticus 19:10

  You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.

• Leviticus 19:19

  “‘You shall keep my statutes. “‘You shall not cross-breed different kinds of animals. “‘You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; “‘Don’t wear a garment made of two kinds of material.

• Leviticus 19:23

  “‘When you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden. Three years they shall be forbidden to you. It shall not be eaten.

• Leviticus 19:24

  But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, for giving praise to Yahweh.

• Leviticus 19:25

  In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, that it may yield its increase to you. I am Yahweh your God.

• Leviticus 25:2

  “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a Sabbath to Yahweh.

• Leviticus 25:3

  You shall sow your field six years, and you shall prune your vineyard six years, and gather in its fruits;

• Leviticus 25:4

  but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to Yahweh. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.

• Leviticus 25:5

  What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and you shall not gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.

• Leviticus 25:6

  The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you.

• Leviticus 25:7

  For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.

• Leviticus 25:8

  “‘You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years.

• Leviticus 25:9

  Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land.

• Leviticus 25:10

  You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.

• Leviticus 25:11

  That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself, nor gather from the undressed vines.

• Leviticus 25:12

  For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its increase out of the field.

• Leviticus 25:15

  According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor. According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you.

• Leviticus 25:16

  According to the length of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish its price; for he is selling the number of the crops to you.

• Leviticus 25:19

  The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.

• Leviticus 25:20

  If you said, “What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase”;

• Leviticus 25:21

  then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bear fruit for the three years.

• Leviticus 25:22

  You shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old store; until the ninth year, until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old store.

• Leviticus 25:23

  “‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.

• Leviticus 25:24

  In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.

• Leviticus 25:25

  “‘If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem that which his brother has sold.

• Leviticus 25:26

  If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it;

• Leviticus 25:27

  then let him reckon the years since its sale, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property.

• Leviticus 25:28

  But if he isn’t able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the Year of Jubilee: and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.

• Deuteronomy 5:13

  You shall labor six days, and do all your work;

• Deuteronomy 5:14

  but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God, in which you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.

• Deuteronomy 20:6

  What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use its fruit.

• Deuteronomy 22:9

  You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest all the fruit be defiled, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard.

• Deuteronomy 22:10

  You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.

• Deuteronomy 23:24

  When you come into your neighbor’s vineyard, then you may eat of grapes your fill at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your container.

• Deuteronomy 23:25

  When you come into your neighbor’s standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not move a sickle to your neighbor’s standing grain.

• Deuteronomy 24:19

  When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

• Deuteronomy 24:20

  When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

• Deuteronomy 24:21

  When you harvest your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

• 1 Samuel 13:19

  Now there was no blacksmith found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears”;

• 1 Samuel 13:20

  but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, each man to sharpen his own plowshare, mattock, ax, and sickle.

• 1 Samuel 13:21

  The price was one payim each to sharpen mattocks, plowshares, pitchforks, axes, and goads.

• 1 Kings 19:19

  So he departed from there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. Elijah went over to him, and put his mantle on him.

• 1 Chronicles 27:26

  Over those who did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub;

• 1 Chronicles 27:27

  and over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite; and over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite;

• 1 Chronicles 27:28

  and over the olive trees and the sycamore trees that were in the lowland was Baal Hanan the Gederite; and over the cellars of oil was Joash;

• 1 Chronicles 27:29

  and over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite; and over the herds that were in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai;

• 1 Chronicles 27:30

  and over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite; and over the donkeys was Jehdeiah the Meronothite; and over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagrite.

• 1 Chronicles 27:31

  All these were the rulers of the property which was king David’s.

• 2 Chronicles 26:10

  He built towers in the wilderness, and dug out many cisterns, for he had much livestock; in the lowland also, and in the plain. He had farmers and vineyard keepers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields, for he loved farming.

• Proverbs 3:9

  Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:

• Proverbs 3:10

  so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

• Proverbs 27:23

  Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds:

• Proverbs 27:24

  for riches are not forever, nor does the crown endure to all generations.

• Proverbs 27:25

  The hay is removed, and the new growth appears, the grasses of the hills are gathered in.

• Proverbs 27:26

  The lambs are for your clothing, and the goats are the price of a field.

• Proverbs 27:27

  There will be plenty of goats’ milk for your food, for your family’s food, and for the nourishment of your servant girls.

• Ecclesiastes 2:4

  I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.

• Ecclesiastes 2:5

  I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.

• Ecclesiastes 2:6

  I made myself pools of water, to water from it the forest where trees were reared.

• Ecclesiastes 5:9

  Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.

• Ecclesiastes 11:6

  In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.

• Isaiah 5:10

  For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.”

• Isaiah 7:23

  It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns.

• Isaiah 28:24

  Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?

• Isaiah 28:25

  When he has leveled its surface, doesn’t he plant the dill, and scatter the cumin seed, and put in the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place?

• Isaiah 28:26

  For his God instructs him in right judgment, and teaches him.

• Isaiah 28:27

  For the dill are not threshed with a sharp instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned over the cumin; but the dill is beaten out with a stick, and the cumin with a rod.

• Isaiah 28:28

  Bread flour must be ground; so he will not always be threshing it. Although he drives the wheel of his threshing cart over it, his horses don’t grind it.

• Jeremiah 4:3

  For Yahweh says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.

• Jeremiah 5:24

  Neither do they say in their heart, ‘Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’

• Jeremiah 12:13

  They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns. They have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing. You shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.”

• Hosea 2:8

  For she did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

• Joel 1:10

  The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.

• Joel 1:11

  Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers; for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished.

• Matthew 9:37

  Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few.

• Matthew 12:1

  At that time, Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the grain fields. His disciples were hungry and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.

• Matthew 13:3

  He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.

• Matthew 13:4

  As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.

• Matthew 13:5

  Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn’t have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.

• Matthew 13:6

  When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.

• Matthew 13:7

  Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.

• Matthew 13:8

  Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

• Matthew 13:19

  When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

• Matthew 13:20

  What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it;

• Matthew 13:21

  yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

• Matthew 13:22

  What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

• Matthew 13:23

  What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”

• Matthew 13:24

  He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

• Matthew 13:25

  but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.

• Matthew 13:26

  But when the blade sprang up and produced fruit, then the darnel weeds appeared also.

• Matthew 13:27

  The servants of the householder came and said to him, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where did these darnel weeds come from?’

• Matthew 13:28

  “He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ “The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and gather them up?’

• Matthew 13:29

  “But he said, ‘No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with them.

• Matthew 13:30

  Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”

• Matthew 13:36

  Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the darnel weeds of the field.”

• Matthew 13:37

  He answered them, “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,

• Matthew 13:38

  the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.

• Matthew 13:39

  The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.

• Matthew 13:40

  As therefore the darnel weeds are gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age.

• Matthew 13:41

  The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and those who do iniquity,

• Matthew 13:42

  and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

• Matthew 13:43

  Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

• Luke 8:5

  “The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.

• Luke 8:6

  Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered away, because it had no moisture.

• Luke 8:7

  Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, and choked it.

• Luke 8:8

  Other fell into the good ground, and grew, and produced one hundred times as much fruit.” As he said these things, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”

• Luke 8:9

  Then his disciples asked him, “What does this parable mean?”

• Luke 8:10

  He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

• Luke 8:11

  Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

• Luke 8:12

  Those along the road are those who hear, then the devil comes, and takes away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved.

• Luke 8:13

  Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.

• Luke 8:14

  That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

• Luke 8:15

  That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produces fruit with patience.

• 2 Corinthians 9:6

  Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

• Galatians 6:7

  Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

• 2 Timothy 2:6

  The farmer who labors must be the first to get a share of the crops.

• James 5:7

  Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.