20 Bible Verses about Tilling The Soil

Whoso is tilling his ground is satisfied with bread, And whoso is pursuing vanity, Is filled with poverty.

And Jehovah God taketh the man, and causeth him to rest in the garden of Eden, to serve it, and to keep it.

Jehovah God sendeth him forth from the garden of Eden to serve the ground from which he hath been taken;

and she addeth to bear his brother, even Abel. And Abel is feeding a flock, and Cain hath been servant of the ground.

And to the man He said, 'Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and dost eat of the tree concerning which I have charged thee, saying, Thou dost not eat of it, cursed is the ground on thine account; in sorrow thou dost eat of it all days of thy life, and thorn and bramble it doth bring forth to thee, and thou hast eaten the herb of the field; by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust thou turnest back.'

Whoso is tilling the ground is satisfied with bread, And whoso is pursuing vanities is lacking heart,

And all the hills that with a mattock are kept in order, Thither cometh not the fear of brier and thorn, And it hath been for the sending forth of ox, And for the treading of sheep!'

And the desolate land is tilled, Instead of which it was a desolation before the eyes of every passer by,

and thou hast served for him the land, thou and thy sons, and thy servants, and hast brought in, and there hath been to the son of thy lord bread, and he hath eaten it; and Mephibosheth son of thy lord doth eat continually bread at my table;' and Ziba hath fifteen sons and twenty servants.

And the abundance of a land is for all. A king for a field is served.

For, lo, I am for you, and have turned to you, And ye have been tilled and sown.

And He hath judged between many peoples, And given a decision to mighty nations afar off, They have beaten their swords to ploughshares, And their spears to pruning-hooks, Nation lifteth not up sword unto nation, Nor do they learn war any more.

And a messenger hath come in unto Job and saith, 'The oxen have been plowing, and the she-asses feeding by their sides,

Dost thou bind a Reem in a furrow with his thick band? Doth he harrow valleys after thee?

'Thou dost not plow with an ox and with an ass together.

The whole day plougheth the ploughman to sow? He openeth and harroweth his ground!

Because of winter the slothful plougheth not, He asketh in harvest, and there is nothing.

Do horses run on a rock? Doth one plough it with oxen? For ye have turned to gall judgment, And the fruit of righteousness to wormwood.

when thou tillest the ground, it doth not add to give its strength to thee -- a wanderer, even a trembling one, thou art in the earth.'

Because these two years the famine is in the heart of the land, and yet are five years, in which there is neither ploughing nor harvest;