Thematic Bible: Operations in
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Agriculture » Operations in » Harvest
So Naomi returned, accompanied by her Moabite daughter-in-law Ruth, who came back with her from the region of Moab. (Now they arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.)
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"While the earth continues to exist, planting time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease."
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"For six years you are to sow your land and gather in its produce.
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Whenever you reap your harvest in your field and leave some unraked grain there, you must not return to get it; it should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow so that the Lord your God may bless all the work you do.
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Is this not the time of the wheat harvest? I will call on the Lord so that he makes it thunder and rain. Realize and see what a great sin you have committed before the Lord by asking for a king for yourselves."
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He turned them over to the Gibeonites, and they executed them on a hill before the Lord. The seven of them died together; they were put to death during harvest time -- during the first days of the beginning of the barley harvest.
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The one who gathers crops in the summer is a wise son, but the one who sleeps during the harvest is a son who brings shame to himself.
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Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.
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Agriculture » Operations in » Threshing
Now Boaz, with whose female servants you worked, is our close relative. Look, tonight he is winnowing barley at the threshing floor.
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The Lord's angelic messenger came and sat down under the oak tree in Ophrah owned by Joash the Abiezrite. He arrived while Joash's son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress so he could hide it from the Midianites.
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While Ornan was threshing wheat, he turned and saw the messenger, and he and his four sons hid themselves.
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Certainly caraway seed is not threshed with a sledge, nor is the wheel of a cart rolled over cumin seed. Certainly caraway seed is beaten with a stick, and cumin seed with a flail.
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For it is written in the law of Moses, "Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain." God is not concerned here about oxen, is he?
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Agriculture » Operations in » Plowing
Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen; he was near the twelfth pair. Elijah passed by him and threw his robe over him.
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and a messenger came to Job, saying, "The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing beside them,
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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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"Would any one of you say to your slave who comes in from the field after plowing or shepherding sheep, 'Come at once and sit down for a meal'?
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Or is he not surely speaking for our benefit? It was written for us, because the one plowing and threshing ought to work in hope of enjoying the harvest.
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Agriculture » Operations in » Gleaning
You must not pick your vineyard bare, and you must not gather up the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You must leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the Lord your God.
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When you gather in the harvest of your land, you must not completely harvest the corner of your field, and you must not gather up the gleanings of your harvest. You must leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the Lord your God.'"
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One day Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, "Let me go to the fields so I can gather grain behind whoever permits me to do so." Naomi replied, "You may go, my daughter."
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So Boaz said to Ruth, "Listen carefully, my dear! Do not leave to gather grain in another field. You need not go beyond the limits of this field. You may go along beside my female workers.
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So Ruth worked beside Boaz's female servants, gathering grain until the end of the barley harvest as well as the wheat harvest. After that she stayed home with her mother-in-law.
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Agriculture » Operations in » Irrigation
For the land where you are headed is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, a land where you planted seed and which you irrigated by hand like a vegetable garden.
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I designed royal gardens and parks for myself, and I planted all kinds of fruit trees in them.
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The Lord will continually lead you; he will feed you even in parched regions. He will give you renewed strength, and you will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring that continually produces water.
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Agriculture » Operations in » Reaping, laws concerning
"'When you gather in the harvest of your land, you must not completely harvest the corner of your field, and you must not gather up the gleanings of your harvest.
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"Speak to the Israelites and tell them, 'When you enter the land that I am about to give to you and you gather in its harvest, then you must bring the sheaf of the first portion of your harvest to the priest,
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You must not gather in the aftergrowth of your harvest and you must not pick the grapes of your unpruned vines; the land must have a year of complete rest.
Agriculture » Operations in » Sowing
He who watches the wind will not sow, and he who observes the clouds will not reap.
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you will be blessed, you who plant seed by all the banks of the streams, you who let your ox and donkey graze.
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He told them many things in parables, saying: "Listen! A sower went out to sow.
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Agriculture » Operations in » Mowing
He will descend like rain on the mown grass, like showers that drench the earth.
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which cannot fill the reaper's hand, or the lap of the one who gathers the grain!
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The sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw him making locusts just as the crops planted late were beginning to sprout. (The crops planted late sprout after the royal harvest.)
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Agriculture » Operations in » Planting
She considers a field and buys it; from her own income she plants a vineyard.
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He cuts down cedars and acquires a cypress or an oak. He gets trees from the forest; he plants a cedar and the rain makes it grow.
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Agriculture » Operations in » Binding
There we were, binding sheaves of grain in the middle of the field. Suddenly my sheaf rose up and stood upright and your sheaves surrounded my sheaf and bowed down to it!"
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Let both grow together until the harvest. At harvest time I will tell the reapers, "First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned, but then gather the wheat into my barn."'"
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Agriculture » Operations in » Winnowing
Now Boaz, with whose female servants you worked, is our close relative. Look, tonight he is winnowing barley at the threshing floor.
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His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire."
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Agriculture » Operations in » Harrowing
Can you bind the wild ox to a furrow with its rope, will it till the valleys, following after you?
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Sowing
He who watches the wind will not sow, and he who observes the clouds will not reap.
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you will be blessed, you who plant seed by all the banks of the streams, you who let your ox and donkey graze.
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He told them many things in parables, saying: "Listen! A sower went out to sow.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Planting
She considers a field and buys it; from her own income she plants a vineyard.
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He cuts down cedars and acquires a cypress or an oak. He gets trees from the forest; he plants a cedar and the rain makes it grow.
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Once again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria. Those who plant them will once again enjoy their fruit.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Watering
For the land where you are headed is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, a land where you planted seed and which you irrigated by hand like a vegetable garden.
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I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused it to grow. So neither the one who plants counts for anything, nor the one who waters, but God who causes the growth. The one who plants and the one who waters work as one, but each will receive his reward according to his work.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Pruning
He takes away every branch that does not bear fruit in me. He prunes every branch that bears fruit so that it will bear more fruit.
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Six years you may sow your field, and six years you may prune your vineyard and gather the produce,
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I will make it a wasteland; no one will prune its vines or hoe its ground, and thorns and briers will grow there. I will order the clouds not to drop any rain on it.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Digging
I will make it a wasteland; no one will prune its vines or hoe its ground, and thorns and briers will grow there. I will order the clouds not to drop any rain on it.
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But the worker answered him, 'Sir, leave it alone this year too, until I dig around it and put fertilizer on it.
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Then the manager said to himself, 'What should I do, since my master is taking my position away from me? I'm not strong enough to dig, and I'm too ashamed to beg.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Threshing
The Lord's angelic messenger came and sat down under the oak tree in Ophrah owned by Joash the Abiezrite. He arrived while Joash's son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress so he could hide it from the Midianites.
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You must not muzzle your ox when it is treading grain.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Grafting
Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them and participated in the richness of the olive root, do not boast over the branches. But if you boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you. Then you will say, "The branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in."
For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree?
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Storing in barns
Look at the birds in the sky: They do not sow, or reap, or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you more valuable than they are?
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Let both grow together until the harvest. At harvest time I will tell the reapers, "First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned, but then gather the wheat into my barn."'"
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Manuring
For the Lord's power will make this mountain secure. Moab will be trampled down where it stands, as a heap of straw is trampled down in a manure pile.
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"Salt is good, but if salt loses its flavor, how can its flavor be restored? It is of no value for the soil or for the manure pile; it is to be thrown out. The one who has ears to hear had better listen!"
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Binding
There we were, binding sheaves of grain in the middle of the field. Suddenly my sheaf rose up and stood upright and your sheaves surrounded my sheaf and bowed down to it!"
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Let both grow together until the harvest. At harvest time I will tell the reapers, "First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned, but then gather the wheat into my barn."'"
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Gleaning
"'When you gather in the harvest of your land, you must not completely harvest the corner of your field, and you must not gather up the gleanings of your harvest.
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So Ruth went and gathered grain in the fields behind the harvesters. Now she just happened to end up in the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelech.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Harrowing
Can you bind the wild ox to a furrow with its rope, will it till the valleys, following after you?
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Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time? Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground?
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Winnowing
Now Boaz, with whose female servants you worked, is our close relative. Look, tonight he is winnowing barley at the threshing floor.
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His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire."
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Hedging
He built a hedge around it, removed its stones, and planted a vine. He built a tower in the middle of it, and constructed a winepress. He waited for it to produce edible grapes, but it produced sour ones instead.
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Now I will inform you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge and turn it into pasture, I will break its wall and allow animals to graze there.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Mowing
which cannot fill the reaper's hand, or the lap of the one who gathers the grain!
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The sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw him making locusts just as the crops planted late were beginning to sprout. (The crops planted late sprout after the royal harvest.)
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Weeding
He said, 'An enemy has done this.' So the slaves replied, 'Do you want us to go and gather them?'
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Stacking
"If a fire breaks out and spreads to thorn bushes, so that stacked grain or standing grain or the whole field is consumed, the one who started the fire must surely make restitution.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Reaping
It will be as when one gathers the grain harvest, and his hand gleans the ear of grain. It will be like one gathering the ears of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Gathering out the stones
He built a hedge around it, removed its stones, and planted a vine. He built a tower in the middle of it, and constructed a winepress. He waited for it to produce edible grapes, but it produced sour ones instead.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Plowing
and a messenger came to Job, saying, "The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing beside them,
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