And she proceeded forth and bare his brother Abel: And Abel became a shepherd, and Cain became a plowman.

And Noah, being a husbandman, went forth and planted a vineyard,

And he built towers in the wilderness and digged many wells. For he had much cattle, both in the valley and also in the plain; and plowmen and vinedressers in the mountains and in Carmel, for he loved husbandry.

But he shall be fain to say, 'I am no Prophet: I am a husbandman, for so am I taught by Adam from my youth up.'

"Hearken another similitude. There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and made a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a strange country:

I am the true vine, and my father is a husbandman.

We are God's laborers: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.