Thematic Bible: Agriculture or husbandry
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Agriculture or husbandry » Often performed by hirelings
Let us say you have a servant who is plowing or looking after the sheep. Do you tell him to hurry and eat his meal when he comes in from the field?
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He also built fortified towers in the open country and dug many cisterns, because he had large herds of livestock in the western foothills and plains. Because he loved farming, he encouraged the people to plant vineyards in the hill country and to farm the fertile land.
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for the farm workers in the fields, Ezri, son of Chelub
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When evening came, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager: 'Let the workers come and pay them from the last to the first.'
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Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Diligence in, abundantly recompensed
He who tills his land will have plenty of bread. He who follows worthless people lacks sense.
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Abundant foods is in the fallow ground of the poor. There is waste because of a lack of justice.
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He who tills his land will have plenty of bread. He who follows after vain persons will have poverty.
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The earth that drinks in the rain that comes upon it, and brings forth vegetation for those by whom it was cultivated, receives blessing from God.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Was promoted amongst the jews, by » The promises of God's blessings on
I will send you rain at the proper time. Then the land will produce crops and the trees will bear fruit.
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He will love you, bless you, and increase the number of your descendants. He will bless you with children. He will bless your land with produce: grain, new wine, and olive oil. He will bless your herds with calves, and your flocks with lambs and kids. This will all happen in the land Jehovah will give you, as he swore to your fathers.
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I will send rain on your land at the proper time, both in the fall and in the spring. You will gather your own grain, new wine, and olive oil. I will provide grass in the fields for your animals. You will be able to eat and be filled.
Agriculture or husbandry » Produce of, often blasted because of sin
A ten-acre vineyard will produce only six gallons of wine, and two quarts of seed will produce only four quarts of grain.
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When that time comes, the fine vineyards, each with a thousand vines and each worth a thousand pieces of silver, will be overgrown with thorn bushes and briers.
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My people planted wheat. They gathered weeds! They worked hard and got nothing for it. Because of my fierce anger their crops have failed.
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The field is laid waste, the land mourns. The grain is destroyed, the new wine dried up, the oil fails. Be ashamed you farmers. Cry you vinedressers. The wheat, the barley and the harvest of the field have perished.
Agriculture or husbandry » The jews loved and followed
Elijah left there and found Elisha plowing with a team of bulls. There were eleven teams ahead of him. He was plowing with the last one. Elijah took off his cloak and put it on Elisha.
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The angel of Jehovah came to the village of Ophrah. He sat under the oak tree that belonged to Joash, a man of the clan of Abiezer. His son Gideon was secretly threshing wheat in a wine press, so that the Midianites would not see him.
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He also built fortified towers in the open country and dug many cisterns, because he had large herds of livestock in the western foothills and plains. Because he loved farming, he encouraged the people to plant vineyards in the hill country and to farm the fertile land.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Sowing
He who observes the wind will not sow and he that regards the clouds will not reap.
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Blessed are those who plant beside every stream and those who let cattle and donkeys roam freely.
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He told them many illustrations. He said: A farmer went out to sow.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Planting
She considers a field and buys it. With the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard.
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He cut down cedars, or cypress or oak. He let it grow among the trees of the forest, or planted a pine, and the rain made it grow.
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You will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria. The planters will plant and will enjoy them.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Watering
The land you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you came. You used to sow your seed and irrigate it with your foot as in a vegetable garden.
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I have planted, Apollos watered; but God caused the growth. Neither he that plants and neither he that waters is anything; but God gives the increase. Now he who plants and he who waters are one [in purpose] and every man will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Pruning
He takes away the branches in me that do not bear fruit. He cleans every branch that bears fruit. That way it may bear more fruit.
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Plant your fields, prune your vineyards, and gather your crops for six years.
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It will turn into a desert, neither pruned nor cultivated. It will be covered with thorns and briars. I will command the clouds not to send rain.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Diligence
In the morning sow your seed. In the evening do not withhold your hand. For you do not know which shall prosper. Whether they both will alike be good.
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Be diligent to know the state of your flocks and attend to your herds. Riches are not forever: and a crown does not endure for every generation. The hay appears and the tender grass shows itself. Herbs of the mountains are gathered. read more.
The lambs are for your clothing, and the goats bring the price of the field. You will have enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household, and for the maintenance for your maidservants.
The lambs are for your clothing, and the goats bring the price of the field. You will have enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household, and for the maintenance for your maidservants.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The sickle
You shall count seven weeks for yourself. Count off seven weeks from the beginning of your grain harvest.
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When you enter your neighbor's standing grain you may pluck the heads with your hand. But you must not wield a sickle in your neighbor's standing grain.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Not to move landmarks
Do not move your neighbor's boundary mark. The ancestors have set this in your inheritance. You will inherit this in the land Jehovah your God gives you to possess.
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Do not remove the ancient landmark which your fathers have set.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Digging
It will turn into a desert, neither pruned nor cultivated. It will be covered with thorns and briars. I will command the clouds not to send rain.
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But the gardener said: Just give it one more year, sir. I will dig around it, fertilize it and leave it alone.
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The servant thought: 'I am fired from my job. What shall I do? I am not strong enough for heavy work and I am ashamed to beg.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Soil of canaan suited to
Lot looked up and saw that the district of the Jordan River was well watered, like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, toward Zoar. This was before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Jehovah your God will lead you into a good land. It is a land with rivers that do not dry up. Springs and underground streams flow through the valleys and the hills. The land has wheat and barley, grapevines, fig trees, and pomegranates. The land has honey and olive trees for olive oil. The land will have enough food for you, and you will have everything you need. The land has rocks with iron ore. You will be able to mine copper ore in the mountains.
Agriculture or husbandry » War destructive to
I will use you to crush shepherds and their flocks. I will use you to crush farmers and their oxen. I will use you to crush governors and officials.
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Do not allow anyone in Babylon to plant or harvest. Everyone will turn to his own people and flee to his own homeland because of the enemies' swords.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Threshing
The angel of Jehovah came to the village of Ophrah. He sat under the oak tree that belonged to Joash, a man of the clan of Abiezer. His son Gideon was secretly threshing wheat in a wine press, so that the Midianites would not see him.
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Do not muzzle the bull while he is threshing.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Grafting
Some of the branches are broken off. You, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them. Therefore you partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree with them. Do not boast against the branches. But if you boast, you do not support the root, but the root supports you. You will say, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.
If you were cut out of the olive tree that is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a garden olive tree: how much more could these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
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Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The cart
Now get a new cart ready for two dairy cows that have never been yoked. Hitch the cows to the cart. Take their calves away and leave them in their stall.
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The black cummin is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a cartwheel rolled over the cummin. But the black cummin is beaten out with a stick, and the cummin with a rod. Bread flour must be ground. Therefore he does not thresh it forever, break it with his cartwheel, or crush it with his horsemen.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Storing in barns
Look at the birds of the sky, they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you worth more than they?
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Let both grow together until the harvest. In the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather weeds first, and bind them in bundles to burn them. Then gather the wheat into my barn.'
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Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The mattock
Everyone in Israel had to go to the Philistines to sharpen the blade of his plow, his mattock, ax, or sickle.
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All the hills where crops were once planted will be so overgrown with thorns that no one will go there. It will be a place where cattle and sheep graze.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Manuring
Jehovah's power will be on this mountain. Moab will be trampled beneath him like straw that is trampled in a pile of manure.
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Salt is good. But if it loses its saltiness it cannot be made salty again. It is neither good for the soil nor for the manure pile. You throw it away. Listen if you have ears!
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Binding
We were all in the field tying up sheaves of wheat. My sheaf got up and stood up straight. Yours formed a circle around mine and bowed down to it.
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Let both grow together until the harvest. In the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather weeds first, and bind them in bundles to burn them. Then gather the wheat into my barn.'
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Agriculture or husbandry » Produce of, exported
Solomon provided Hiram with one hundred thousand bushels of wheat and one hundred and ten thousand gallons of pure olive oil every year to feed his men.
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Judah and the land of Israel were your traders. They traded with the wheat of Minnith. Cakes, honey, oil and balm were paid for your merchandise.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Persons engaged in, called » Laborers
Jesus said to his disciples: The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few.
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The kingdom of heaven is like the master of a house, who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The fan
His winnowing shovel is in his hand. He will clean his threshing floor and gather his wheat into a barn. He will then burn the husks in a fire that cannot be put out.
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The cattle and the donkeys that work the soil will eat a mixture of food that has been winnowed with forks and shovels.
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Agriculture or husbandry » The labor of, supposed to be lessened by noah
Noah, a man of the soil, planted a vineyard.
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He named him Noah. He said: He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground Jehovah has cursed.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Peace favorable to
Judah and all its cities will dwell together in it, the farmer and the shepherds with the flocks.
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Then he will judge disputes between nations and settle matters between many people. They will beat (hammer) their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nations will not fight against each other, and they will not learn war anymore.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Illustrative of the » Culture of the heart
Jehovah says to the people of Judah and to Jerusalem: Break up your unplowed fields, and do not plant among thorns.
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I said: Plow new ground for yourselves, plant righteousness, and reap the blessings that your devotion to me will produce. It is time for you to turn to me, Jehovah, and I will come and pour out righteousness on you.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Patriarchs engaged in
Noah, a man of the soil, planted a vineyard.
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Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Gleaning
When you reap the harvest of your land, you should not reap to the very corners of your field. You should not gather the gleanings of your harvest.
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So she went and picked up the heads of grain in the field after the cutters. By chance she went into that part of the field owned by Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.
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Agriculture or husbandry » The providence of God to be acknowledged in the produce of
They do not say in their hearts, to themselves: 'We should respect Jehovah our God. He sends rain at the right time, the autumn rain and the spring rain. He makes sure that we have harvest seasons.'
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She did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Harrowing
Can you bind the wild bull in the furrow with ropes? Or will he plow the valleys behind you?
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Does the plowman keep plowing all day in order to sow seed? Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods?
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Agriculture or husbandry » Grief occasioned by the failure of the fruits of
Be ashamed you farmers. Cry you vinedressers. The wheat, the barley and the harvest of the field have perished.
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Listen to Jehovah the God of Hosts, the Almighty: Wailing will be in all the broad ways. They will say in all the streets, Alas! Alas! They will call the farmer to mourning, and the professional mourner to lamentation and crying. All vineyards will lament. For I will pass through your midst, said Jehovah.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The pruning-hook
Before the harvest, when blossoms are gone and grapes are ripening from blossoms, he will cut off the shoots with pruning shears and chop off and take away the spreading branches.
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Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears! Let the weak say, I am strong.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Winnowing
Boaz is of our kindred, with whose servant girls you have been. He winnows barley tonight in the threshing floor.
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His winnowing shovel is in his hand. He will clean his threshing floor and gather his wheat into a barn. He will then burn the husks in a fire that cannot be put out.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Hedging
He dug the soil all around and removed its stones. He planted it with the choicest vine. And he built a tower in the middle of it and also hewed out a wine vat in it. Then he expected it to produce good grapes, but it only produced worthless ones.
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Here is what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge and break down the wall that protects it. I will let wild animals eat it and trample it down.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Mowing
The reaper does not fill his hand with it, or the binder of sheaves his bosom.
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This is what the Lord Jehovah showed me: Behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the sprouting of the second crop. It was the later growth (second crop) after the king's mowing.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Climate of canaan favorable to
The land you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you came. You used to sow your seed and irrigate it with your foot as in a vegetable garden. But the land you go to possess is a land of hills and valleys. It drinks water from the rain from the clouds in the sky.
Agriculture or husbandry » Was promoted amongst the jews, by » The rights of redemption
No land may be permanently bought or sold. It all belongs to me! It is not your land! You only live there for a little while. When property is sold, the original owner must be given the first chance to buy it. If any of you Israelites become so poor that you are forced to sell your property, your closest relative must buy it back. read more.
If that relative has the money. Later, if you can afford to buy it, you must pay enough to make up for what the present owner will lose on it before the next Year of Celebration, when the property would become yours again. If he cannot earn enough to buy it back, what he sold stays in the hands of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee it will be released, and he will own it again.
If that relative has the money. Later, if you can afford to buy it, you must pay enough to make up for what the present owner will lose on it before the next Year of Celebration, when the property would become yours again. If he cannot earn enough to buy it back, what he sold stays in the hands of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee it will be released, and he will own it again.
Agriculture or husbandry » Persons engaged in, called » Husbandmen
He also built fortified towers in the open country and dug many cisterns, because he had large herds of livestock in the western foothills and plains. Because he loved farming, he encouraged the people to plant vineyards in the hill country and to farm the fertile land.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Not to cut down crops of another
When you enter your neighbor's standing grain you may pluck the heads with your hand. But you must not wield a sickle in your neighbor's standing grain.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Illustrative of the » Culture of the church
For we are fellow workers together with God. You are God's field under cultivation. You are God's building.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Beasts used in » The ass
Do not plow with a bull and a donkey together.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Not to covet the fields of another
Do not desire another man's wife; do not covet another man's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his donkey, or any thing that belongs to him.'
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Agriculture or husbandry » Beasts used in » Oxen
Do not muzzle the bull while he is threshing.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Produce of, given as rent for land
Listen to another illustration. A master of a house made a vineyard, and put a wall around it. He made a wine press and built a tower. Then he rented it to workers and traveled to another country. When the time for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the workmen, to get the fruit.
Agriculture or husbandry » Contributes to the support of all
A king who cultivates the field is an advantage to the land.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Not to be engaged in during the sabbatical year
Plant your land and gather in what it produces for six years. Let your land rest the seventh year. Do not harvest anything that grows on it. The poor may eat what grows there. The wild animals may have what is left. Do the same with your vineyards and your olive trees.
Agriculture or husbandry » Rendered laborious by the curse on the earth
He said to Adam: Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you. You will eat the plants of the field. You will eat your food by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground. You came from the ground. For dust you are and to dust you will return.
Agriculture or husbandry » Was promoted amongst the jews, by » Allotments to each family
The property of every Israelite will remain attached to his tribe. Every woman who inherits property in an Israelite tribe must marry a man belonging to that tribe. In this way all Israelites will inherit the property of their ancestors, and the property will not pass from one tribe to another. Each tribe will continue to possess its own property.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The harrow
David made the people of Rabbah tear down the city walls with iron picks and axes. He also put them to work making bricks. He did the same thing with all the other Ammonite cities. David went back to Jerusalem. The people of Israel returned to their homes.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The plow
Everyone in Israel had to go to the Philistines to sharpen the blade of his plow, his mattock, ax, or sickle.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The fork
The charge for sharpening plowshares and for the mattocks, and for the mattocks, and for the three-pronged forks, and for the axes was a pim.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The axe
Everyone in Israel had to go to the Philistines to sharpen the blade of his plow, his mattock, ax, or sickle.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Weeding
He replied: 'An enemy did this.' The servants offered to remove the weeds.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Toil
The hard-working farmer should be first to receive his share of the crops.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Was promoted amongst the jews, by » The prohibition against usury
When you lend money to any of my people who are poor, do not act like a moneylender and require him to pay interest.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Was promoted amongst the jews, by » Separation from other nations
If you do go with us, everyone will know that you are pleased with your people and with me. That way, we will be different from the rest of the people on earth.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Beasts used in » Horses
Bread flour must be ground. Therefore he does not thresh it forever, break it with his cartwheel, or crush it with his horsemen.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The teethed threshing instrument
See I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them. You will reduce the hills to chaff.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The flail, &c
The black cummin is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a cartwheel rolled over the cummin. But the black cummin is beaten out with a stick, and the cummin with a rod.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The shovel
The cattle and the donkeys that work the soil will eat a mixture of food that has been winnowed with forks and shovels.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Wisdom
He instructs him in right judgment and his God teaches him.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Man doomed to labor in, after the fall
Therefore Jehovah God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
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Agriculture or husbandry » The occupation of man before the fall
Jehovah God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
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Agriculture or husbandry » The cultivation of the earth
Therefore Jehovah God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Persons engaged in, called » Tillers of the ground
Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Against injuring the produce of
A fire starts and spreads into the underbrush so that it burns up stacked or standing grain or ruins a field. The person who started the fire must make up for the loss.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Against the trespass of cattle
Someone lets his livestock graze in a field or a vineyard. They stray and graze in another person's field. He must make up for what the damaged field was expected to produce. If he lets them ruin the whole field with their grazing, he must make up from his own field for the loss with the best from his field and vineyard.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Stacking
A fire starts and spreads into the underbrush so that it burns up stacked or standing grain or ruins a field. The person who started the fire must make up for the loss.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Reaping
It will be like reapers gathering the standing grain. Their arms harvest the ears, and as when one gleans the ears of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Gathering out the stones
He dug the soil all around and removed its stones. He planted it with the choicest vine. And he built a tower in the middle of it and also hewed out a wine vat in it. Then he expected it to produce good grapes, but it only produced worthless ones.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Patience in waiting
Be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and late rains.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The sieve
I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations! Like grain is sifted in a sieve, yet the least kernel will not fall on the earth.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Plowing
a messenger came running to Job. We were plowing the fields with the cattle, he said, and the donkeys were in a nearby pasture.
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