20 Bible Verses about Tilling The Soil

The one who works his land will be satisfied with food, but whoever chases daydreams will have his fill of poverty.

The Lord God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it.

So the Lord God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.

Then she gave birth to his brother Abel. Abel took care of the flocks, while Cain cultivated the ground.

But to Adam he said, "Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat from it,' cursed is the ground thanks to you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, but you will eat the grain of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return."

The one who works his field will have plenty of food, but whoever chases daydreams lacks wisdom.

They will stay away from all the hills that were cultivated, for fear of the thorns and briers. Cattle will graze there and sheep will trample on them.

The desolate land will be plowed, instead of being desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.

You will cultivate the land for him -- you and your sons and your servants. You will bring its produce and it will be food for your master's grandson to eat. But Mephibosheth, your master's grandson, will be a regular guest at my table." (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)

The produce of the land is seized by all of them, even the king is served by the fields.

For indeed, I am on your side; I will turn to you, and you will be plowed and planted.

He will arbitrate between many peoples and settle disputes between many distant nations. They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nations will not use weapons against other nations, and they will no longer train for war.

and a messenger came to Job, saying, "The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing beside them,

Can you bind the wild ox to a furrow with its rope, will it till the valleys, following after you?

You must not plow with an ox and a donkey harnessed together.

Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time? Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground?

The sluggard will not plow during the planting season, so at harvest time he looks for the crop but has nothing.

Can horses run on rocky cliffs? Can one plow the sea with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into a poisonous plant, and the fruit of righteous actions into a bitter plant.

When you try to cultivate the ground it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a homeless wanderer on the earth."

For these past two years there has been famine in the land and for five more years there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.