The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.

Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.

And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:

And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.

And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them: for the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one to his field.

Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.

And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.

And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;

But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.

I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?

Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)

For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:

The sower soweth the word.

But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.

And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:

Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.

Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.

Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.

But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.

And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.

Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?

But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.

And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;

For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.

He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.

And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:

Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.

The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.

And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;

And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel.

And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.

Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him.

When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.