48 Bible Verses about Farming

The farmer who works hard must [be] the first to receive a share of the crops.

Therefore be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the soil, being patient concerning it until it receives the early and late rains.

But when the crop permits, he sends [in] the sickle right away, because the harvest has come."

And he told a parable to them, saying, "The land of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest.

And when you reap the harvest of your land, you must not finish the edge of your field at your reaping, and you must not glean the remnants of your harvest--you shall leave them behind for the needy and for the alien; I [am] Yahweh your God.'"

And then I came to learn that the food of the Levites had not been given to them, so that the Levites and the singers, the doers of the work, had gone back each to his field.

"You will be blessed in the city, and you will be blessed in the field.

And he sent a slave to the tenant farmers at the proper time, so that he could collect [some] of the fruit of the vineyard from the tenant farmers.

And they shall build houses and inhabit [them], and they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

And he said, "The kingdom of God is like this: like a man scatters seed on the ground.

But in the seventh year it shall be {a Sabbath of complete rest} for the land--a Sabbath for Yahweh; you must not sow your field, and you must not prune your vineyard.

I passed by the field of a lazy person, and over the vineyard of a person lacking {sense};

"I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.

Now when the master of the vineyard arrives, what will he do to those tenant farmers?"

Now the one who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will provide and multiply your seed, and will cause the harvest of your righteousness to grow,

For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.

And Noah began [to be] a man of the ground, and he planted a vineyard.

The sower sows the word.

but he will say, "I [am] not a prophet; I am a tiller of the soil, for a man has acquired me since my youth."

" 'And six years you will sow your land and gather its yield.

You will again plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria. [The] planters will plant, and they will enjoy [it].

And he began to tell the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard, and leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey for a long time.

"You shall not sow your vineyard [with] differing kinds [of seed], so that you shall not forfeit {the whole harvest}, [both] the seed that you sowed and the yield of the vineyard.

But [if it] produces thorns and thistles, [it is] worthless and near to a curse, whose end [is] for burning.

And he sleeps and gets up, night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows--{he does not know how}.

Is it all day [that] the plowman plows, opens to sow seed, harrows his ground?

But the seventh you will let it rest and leave it fallow, and the poor of your people will eat, and their remainder the animals of the field will eat. You will do likewise for your vineyard and for your olive trees.

And his God instructs him about the prescription; he teaches him.

And whenever Israel sowed seed, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people of [the] east would come up against them.

For thus says Yahweh to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, "Break up for yourselves prepared virgin soil, and you must not sow among thornbushes.

And [when] the ones [hired] about the eleventh hour came, they received a denarius apiece.

Whoever watches the wind will not sow; whoever watches the clouds will not reap.

{Then she bore} his brother Abel. And Abel became a keeper of sheep, and Cain became a tiller of the ground.

And Amos answered and said to Amaziah, "I am not a prophet and I [am] not a son of a prophet, but I [am] a herdsman and I am one taking care of sycamore trees.

Grain is crushed fine, but certainly one does not thresh it forever; and one drives the wheel of his cart, but his horses do not crush it.

" 'But the land must not be sold in perpetuity, because the land [is] mine, because you [are] aliens and temporary residents with me.

And other [seed] fell on the rock, and [when it] came up, it withered, because it did not have moisture.

Now Abram [was] very wealthy in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

And he spoke many [things] to them in parables, saying, "Behold, the sower went out to sow,

And the workers of the city from all the tribes of Israel shall cultivate it.

And Yahweh God took the man and set him in the garden of Eden to cultivate it and to keep it.

Then there will be two men in the field; one will be taken and one left.

And he built towers in the desert and hewed many cisterns, for he had much livestock, both in the Shephelah and on the plain, [along with] farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soil.

And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in that [same] year a hundredfold, and Yahweh blessed him.

The lazy person will not plow in season; he will expect at the harvest, but there [will be] nothing.

So he returned from after him, and he took a pair of oxen and slaughtered them, and with the yoke of the oxen he boiled the flesh and gave it to the people and they ate. Then he arose and went after Elijah and served him.

When you till the ground {it shall no longer yield its strength to you}. You shall be a wanderer and a fugitive on the earth."

And Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.