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So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest. Verse ConceptsBarleyGrainHarvestAutumnIndividuals going home


"For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase, Verse ConceptsExploitationsCultivationSix YearsLiteral PlantingReapingAgricultureFarmingSowing Seedssowing

When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. Verse ConceptsForeignersBinding cornBereaved, Care ForGrainOrphansSowing And ReapingWidowsAutumnAliensSuccess And Hard Work

Isn't it wheat harvest today? I will call to Yahweh, that he may send thunder and rain; and you shall know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of Yahweh, in asking for a king." Verse ConceptsHarvestGod's People Sinning

He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the mountain before Yahweh, and all seven of them fell together. They were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest. Verse ConceptsCriminalsMaternal LoveGrainAutumnPeople Hung To Death


Like snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool. Verse ConceptsHarvestSeasonsSummerAccoladesSnowThe Honourable Will Be HonouredUnfitting ThingsFools

Now isn't Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens you were? Behold, he winnows barley tonight in the threshing floor. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsGrainWinnowingRelatives

The angel of Yahweh came, and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained to Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsAppearances Of God In OtGrainThreshingWheatWinepressWarriorsOaksActing In Secretgideon

Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat. Verse ConceptsThreshingFour PeopleHiding From God

For the dill are not threshed with a sharp instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned over the cumin; but the dill is beaten out with a stick, and the cumin with a rod. Verse ConceptsHerbs And SpicesSticksCummin

For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain." Is it for the oxen that God cares, Verse ConceptsMoses, Significance OfThreshingMuzzlingAnimals, God's Care OfOxenSealing ThingsBinding As AnimalsWritten In The Lawthe Law of mosesPerspectivemuscles

So he departed there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing, with twelve yoke [of oxen] before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed over to him, and cast his mantle on him. Verse ConceptsFarmersCloaksCovering The BodyYokesCultivationPloughingOuter GarmentsPloughmenTwelve Animals

that there came a messenger to Job, and said, "The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them, Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsMessengerPloughingTilling The SoilAnimals Eating


But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field, 'Come immediately and sit down at the table,' Verse ConceptsPloughingSittingReclining To EatPloughmenStock Keepingservanthood

or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, Qualities NeededHope, Nature OfPloughingCultivationPloughmenOther Scriptures FulfilledSharing Material ThingsFor The Sake Of God's People

You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God. Verse ConceptsGrapesOppression, God's Attitude ToPoverty, Remedies ForRightsVineyardStrangersGleaningLoving ForeignersThe Lord Is GodLaws About AgricultureAliens

"'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap into the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest: you shall leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.'" Verse ConceptsGleaningForeignersethics, socialHarvestLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityPoverty, Remedies ForSowing And ReapingAliens, Believers DutyCapitalismStrangersLoving ForeignersThe Lord Is GodLaws About AgricultureEconomicsThe poorStrangers in israelImmigrantsAliensFarmingFeeding The Poor

Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, "Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor." She said to her, "Go, my daughter." Verse ConceptsGleaning

Then Boaz said to Ruth, "Listen, my daughter. Don't go to glean in another field, and don't go from here, but stay here close to my maidens. Verse ConceptsLiving Together

So she stayed close to the maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she lived with her mother-in-law. Verse ConceptsWheatLiving Together

For the land, where you go in to possess it, isn't as the land of Egypt, that you came out from, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs; Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalWater IrrigationRivers And StreamsArtificialnessNot Like ThingsFeet In ActionGardensHerbsland

I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit. Verse ConceptsOrchardsGardens


"'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, RestrictionsBinding cornHarvestGleaningLaws About Agriculture

"Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its the harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest: Verse ConceptsSpringBinding cornInvasions

What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your undressed vine you shall not gather. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.


Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey. Verse ConceptsCowsPlanting SeedsSpilling Your Seed On The Ground

He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, "Behold, a farmer went out to sow. Verse ConceptsParables Of ChristJesus Using ParablesFarmingSowing Seeds

He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth. Verse ConceptsRainWeather, As God's JudgmentHoly Spirit, Types OfShowersMowingMetaphorical WateringLike Grass

with which the reaper doesn't fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom. Verse ConceptsArmsMowingNot Reaping What You Sow

Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold, it was the latter growth after the king's harvest. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsCropsLocustsMowingDestruction Of PlantsAttitudes Towards Kings


He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it. Verse ConceptsTreesFelling Treeswoodworkingtoughness

for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf." Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsBinding cornGrainJoining ThingsBowing Before JosephReapingPeople Getting Upvulnerability

Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, "First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn."'" Verse ConceptsBinding cornHarvestSicklesBindingEternal JudgmentMixed MultitudeJoining ThingsGathering FoodBurning PlantsGod's StorehousesPlants Growing UpGrowing

Now isn't Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens you were? Behold, he winnows barley tonight in the threshing floor. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsGrainWinnowingRelatives

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire." Verse ConceptsHell, Description OfNames For HeavenHell, As An ExperienceForksSin, God's Judgment OnThreshing FloorToolsWinnowingWicked Described AsEternal JudgmentLight As ChaffReapingBurning PlantsGod's StorehousesWeed

Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you? Verse ConceptsTilling The SoilUnicorns


Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey. Verse ConceptsCowsPlanting SeedsSpilling Your Seed On The Ground

He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, "Behold, a farmer went out to sow. Verse ConceptsParables Of ChristJesus Using ParablesFarmingSowing Seeds


He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it. Verse ConceptsTreesFelling Treeswoodworkingtoughness

Again you shall plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant, and shall enjoy [its fruit]. Verse ConceptsEnjoyment, Material ThingsOccupationsSamaritansSowing And ReapingPlanting VineyardsLiteral PlantingFarming

For the land, where you go in to possess it, isn't as the land of Egypt, that you came out from, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs; Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalWater IrrigationRivers And StreamsArtificialnessNot Like ThingsFeet In ActionGardensHerbsland

I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase. So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.


Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruits; Verse ConceptsCropsPruningSix YearsLiteral Planting

I will lay it a wasteland. It won't be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it." Verse ConceptsBriersAgriculture, TermsPruningCommands, in OTdrought, physicalRainCultivationLack Of RainFallow Land

I will lay it a wasteland. It won't be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it." Verse ConceptsBriersAgriculture, TermsPruningCommands, in OTdrought, physicalRainCultivationLack Of RainFallow Land


"The manager said within himself, 'What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don't have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg. Verse ConceptsDestitutesBeggarsLordship, Human And DivinePoverty, Causes OfBeggingWorldly DilemmasExcavationSoliloquyShame Of Bad ConductWithout StrengthDeposingMoney Management

The angel of Yahweh came, and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained to Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsAppearances Of God In OtGrainThreshingWheatWinepressWarriorsOaksActing In Secretgideon


But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree; don't boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you. You will say then, "Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in."

For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree? Verse ConceptsOlivesParticipation, In ChristTreesCutting Off BranchesJoined To The ChurchOlive Treescutting


Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, "First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn."'" Verse ConceptsBinding cornHarvestSicklesBindingEternal JudgmentMixed MultitudeJoining ThingsGathering FoodBurning PlantsGod's StorehousesPlants Growing UpGrowing

For in this mountain the hand of Yahweh will rest. Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill. Verse Conceptsdung and manureStrawThe Prophecy Towards EdomGod's HandTrampling PeopleDefecationGod's Hands In Opposition

Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it? It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf." Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsBinding cornGrainJoining ThingsBowing Before JosephReapingPeople Getting Upvulnerability

Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, "First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn."'" Verse ConceptsBinding cornHarvestSicklesBindingEternal JudgmentMixed MultitudeJoining ThingsGathering FoodBurning PlantsGod's StorehousesPlants Growing UpGrowing

"'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, RestrictionsBinding cornHarvestGleaningLaws About Agriculture

She went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and she happened to come to the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsGod's Mercy, Example OfRelatives

Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you? Verse ConceptsTilling The SoilUnicorns

Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods? Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsPloughingVegetationUnceasingAlways Being ActiveTilling The SoilPloughmenPlanting SeedsFarmingSowing Seedssowing

Now isn't Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens you were? Behold, he winnows barley tonight in the threshing floor. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsGrainWinnowingRelatives

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire." Verse ConceptsHell, Description OfNames For HeavenHell, As An ExperienceForksSin, God's Judgment OnThreshing FloorToolsWinnowingWicked Described AsEternal JudgmentLight As ChaffReapingBurning PlantsGod's StorehousesWeed

He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in its midst, and also cut out a winepress therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsFortsExcavationWineskins And Vats

Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down. Verse ConceptsWallsFigurative Fields

with which the reaper doesn't fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom. Verse ConceptsArmsMowingNot Reaping What You Sow

Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold, it was the latter growth after the king's harvest. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsCropsLocustsMowingDestruction Of PlantsAttitudes Towards Kings

"He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' "The servants asked him, 'Do you want us to go and gather them up?' Verse ConceptsEnemies Of God

"If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution. Verse ConceptsCornAgriculture, RestrictionsFieldsAgriculture, TermsThornsWeedsArsonBurning Plants

It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsBinding cornArmsHarvestSicklesGleaningReaping

He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in its midst, and also cut out a winepress therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsFortsExcavationWineskins And Vats

that there came a messenger to Job, and said, "The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them, Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsMessengerPloughingTilling The SoilAnimals Eating