Genesis 9:20

Noah's Descendants

¹⁹ These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated. ²⁰ Then Noah began farming and planted a vineyard. ²¹ He drank of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent.

In Those Days

Of The Earth

Noah

Genesis 3:18-19

“Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you;
And you will eat the plants of the field;

Genesis 3:23

therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken.

Genesis 4:2

Again, she gave birth to his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of flocks, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

Genesis 5:29

Now he called his name Noah, saying, “This one will give us rest from our work and from the toil of our hands arising from the ground which the Lord has cursed.”

Deuteronomy 20:6

Who is the man that has planted a vineyard and has not begun to use its fruit? Let him depart and return to his house, otherwise he might die in the battle and another man would begin to use its fruit.

Deuteronomy 28:30

You shall betroth a wife, but another man will violate her; you shall build a house, but you will not live in it; you shall plant a vineyard, but you will not use its fruit.

Proverbs 10:11

The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life,
But the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

Proverbs 12:11

He who tills his land will have plenty of bread,
But he who pursues worthless things lacks sense.

Proverbs 24:30

I passed by the field of the sluggard
And by the vineyard of the man lacking sense,

Ecclesiastes 5:9

After all, a king who cultivates the field is an advantage to the land.

Song of Songs 1:6

“Do not stare at me because I am swarthy,
For the sun has burned me.
My mother’s sons were angry with me;
They made me caretaker of the vineyards,
But I have not taken care of my own vineyard.

Isaiah 28:24-26

Does the farmer plow continually to plant seed?
Does he continually turn and harrow the ground?

1 Corinthians 9:7

Who at any time serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Or who tends a flock and does not use the milk of the flock?