Genesis 9:20

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Summary

Genesis 9:20

And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:

An husbandman

Isaiah 28:24

Planted

1 Corinthians 9:7

Bible References

An husbandman

And thorns and thistles shall sprout for you, and you shall eat the plants of the field.

{Then she bore} his brother Abel. And Abel became a keeper of sheep, and Cain became a tiller of the ground.

And he called his name Noah, saying, "This one {shall relieve us} from our work, and from the hard labor of our hands, from the ground which Yahweh had cursed.

A fountain of life [is] a mouth of righteousness, and a mouth of wickedness conceals violence.

He who works his land will have plenty of food, but he who follows worthless things lacks {sense}.

The produce of the land is exploited by everyone; {even the king profits from the field [of the poor]}!

Is it all day [that] the plowman plows, opens to sow seed, harrows his ground?

Planted

And who [is] the man that has planted a vineyard and has not enjoyed it? Let him go and let him return to his house, so that he does not die in battle and {another man} enjoys it.

You shall become engaged to a woman, but another man shall sleep with her; you shall build a house, but you shall not live in it; a vineyard you shall plant, but you shall not enjoy it.

I passed by the field of a lazy person, and over the vineyard of a person lacking {sense};

Do not gaze at me because I am black, because the sun has stared [at] me. The sons of my mother were angry with me; they made me keeper of the vineyards, [but] my own "vineyard" I did not keep.

Who ever serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Who shepherds a flock and does not drink from the milk of the flock?