Thematic Bible: Operations in
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Agriculture » Operations in » Harvest
So Naomi came back from the land of Moab with her daughter-in-law Ruth the Moabitess. They arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.
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seedtime and harvest, cold and heat,
summer and winter, and day and night
will not cease.”
“Sow your land for six years and gather its produce.
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“When you reap the harvest in your field, and you forget a sheaf in the field, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
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Isn’t the wheat harvest today? I will call on the Lord and He will send thunder and rain, so that you will know and see what a great evil you committed in the Lord’s sight by requesting a king for yourselves.”
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and handed them over to the Gibeonites. They hanged them on the hill in the presence of the Lord; the seven of them died together. They were executed in the first days of the harvest at the beginning of the barley harvest.
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the son who sleeps during harvest is disgraceful.
honor is inappropriate for a fool.
Agriculture » Operations in » Threshing
Now isn’t Boaz our relative? Haven’t you been working with his female servants? This evening he will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor.
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The Angel of the Lord came, and He sat under the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash, the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was threshing wheat in the wine vat in order to hide it from the Midianites.
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Ornan was threshing wheat when he turned and saw the angel. His four sons, who were with him, hid themselves.
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with a threshing board,
and a cart wheel is not rolled over the cumin.
But black cumin is beaten out with a stick,
and cumin with a rod.
For it is written in the law of Moses, Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain. Is God really concerned with oxen?
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Agriculture » Operations in » Plowing
Elijah left there and found Elisha son of Shaphat as he was plowing. Twelve teams of oxen were in front of him, and he was with the twelfth team. Elijah walked by him and threw his mantle over him.
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a messenger came to Job and reported: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys grazing nearby,
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But Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
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Or isn’t He really saying it for us? Yes, this is written for us, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes should do so in hope of sharing the crop.
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Agriculture » Operations in » Gleaning
You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident; I am Yahweh your God.
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When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap all the way to the edge of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident; I am Yahweh your God.”
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Ruth the Moabitess asked Naomi, “Will you let me go into the fields and gather fallen grain behind someone who allows me to?”
Naomi answered her, “Go ahead, my daughter.” Verse Concepts
Naomi answered her, “Go ahead, my daughter.” Verse Concepts
Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Don’t go and gather grain in another field, and don’t leave this one, but stay here close to my female servants.
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Ruth stayed close to Boaz’s female servants and gathered grain until the barley and the wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.
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Agriculture » Operations in » Irrigation
For the land you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated by hand as in a vegetable garden.
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I made gardens and parks for myself and planted every kind of fruit tree in them.
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satisfy you in a parched land,
and strengthen your bones.
You will be like a watered garden
and like a spring whose waters never run dry.
Agriculture » Operations in » Reaping, laws concerning
“When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edge of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.
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“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you and reap its harvest, you are to bring the first sheaf of your harvest to the priest.
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You are not to reap what grows by itself from your crop, or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. It must be a year of complete rest for the land.
Agriculture » Operations in » Sowing
and the one who looks at the clouds will not reap.
beside abundant waters;
they let ox and donkey range freely.
Then He told them many things in parables, saying: “Consider the sower who went out to sow.
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Agriculture » Operations in » Mowing
like spring showers that water the earth.
or the arms of the one who binds sheaves.
The Lord God showed me this: He was forming a swarm of locusts at the time the spring crop first began to sprout—after the cutting of the king’s hay.
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Agriculture » Operations in » Planting
she plants a vineyard with her earnings.
or he takes a cypress or an oak.
He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest.
He plants a laurel, and the rain makes it grow.
Agriculture » Operations in » Binding
There we were, binding sheaves of grain in the field. Suddenly my sheaf stood up, and your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.”
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Agriculture » Operations in » Winnowing
Now isn’t Boaz our relative? Haven’t you been working with his female servants? This evening he will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor.
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His winnowing shovel is in His hand, and He will clear His threshing floor and gather His wheat into the barn. But the chaff He will burn up with fire that never goes out.”
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Agriculture » Operations in » Harrowing
Will it plow the valleys behind you?
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Sowing
and the one who looks at the clouds will not reap.
beside abundant waters;
they let ox and donkey range freely.
Then He told them many things in parables, saying: “Consider the sower who went out to sow.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Planting
she plants a vineyard with her earnings.
or he takes a cypress or an oak.
He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest.
He plants a laurel, and the rain makes it grow.
on the mountains of Samaria;
the planters will plant and will enjoy the fruit.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Watering
For the land you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated by hand as in a vegetable garden.
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I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. Now the one who plants and the one who waters are equal, and each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Pruning
You may sow your field for six years, and you may prune your vineyard and gather its produce for six years.
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It will not be pruned or weeded;
thorns and briers will grow up.
I will also give orders to the clouds
that rain should not fall on it.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Digging
It will not be pruned or weeded;
thorns and briers will grow up.
I will also give orders to the clouds
that rain should not fall on it.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Threshing
The Angel of the Lord came, and He sat under the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash, the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was threshing wheat in the wine vat in order to hide it from the Midianites.
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“Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Grafting
Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, though a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them, and have come to share in the rich root of the cultivated olive tree, do not brag that you are better than those branches. But if you do brag-you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you. Then you will say, "Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in."
For if you were cut off from your native wild olive and against nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these—the natural branches—be grafted into their own olive tree?
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Storing in barns
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Manuring
as straw is trampled in a dung pile.
"Now, salt is good, but if salt should lose its taste, how will it be made salty? It isn't fit for the soil or for the manure pile; they throw it out. Anyone who has ears to hear should listen!"
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Binding
There we were, binding sheaves of grain in the field. Suddenly my sheaf stood up, and your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.”
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Gleaning
“When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edge of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.
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So Ruth left and entered the field to gather grain behind the harvesters. She happened to be in the portion of land belonging to Boaz, who was from Elimelech’s family.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Harrowing
Will it plow the valleys behind you?
Does he continuously break up and cultivate the soil?
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Winnowing
Now isn’t Boaz our relative? Haven’t you been working with his female servants? This evening he will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor.
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His winnowing shovel is in His hand, and He will clear His threshing floor and gather His wheat into the barn. But the chaff He will burn up with fire that never goes out.”
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Hedging
and planted it with the finest vines.
He built a tower in the middle of it
and even dug out a winepress there.
He expected
but it yielded worthless grapes.
what I am about to do to My vineyard:
I will remove its hedge,
and it will be consumed;
I will tear down its wall,
and it will be trampled.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Mowing
or the arms of the one who binds sheaves.
The Lord God showed me this: He was forming a swarm of locusts at the time the spring crop first began to sprout—after the cutting of the king’s hay.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Weeding
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Stacking
“When a fire gets out of control, spreads to thornbushes, and consumes stacks of cut grain, standing grain, or a field, the one who started the fire must make full restitution for what was burned.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Reaping
his arm harvesting the heads of grain—
and as if one had gleaned heads of grain
in the Valley of Rephaim.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Gathering out the stones
and planted it with the finest vines.
He built a tower in the middle of it
and even dug out a winepress there.
He expected
but it yielded worthless grapes.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Plowing
a messenger came to Job and reported: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys grazing nearby,
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