20 Bible Verses about Tilling The Soil

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who follows after vanity shall have poverty enough.

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

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

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

And to Adam he said, Because thou have hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shall not eat of it, cursed is the ground for thy sake. In toil thou shall eat of it all Also, thorns and thistles it shall bring forth to thee, and thou shall eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of thy face thou shall eat bread, till thou return to the ground, for out of it thou were taken. For thou are dust, and to dust thou shall return.

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who pursues vanities is void of understanding.

And all the hills that were dug with the mattock, thou shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns, but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.

And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.

And thou shall till the land for him, thou, and thy sons, and thy servants. And thou shall bring in [the fruits] that thy master's son may have bread to eat, but Mephibosheth thy master's son shall always eat bread at my table. Now

Moreover the abundance of the land is for all. The king [himself] is served by the field.

For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn into you, and ye shall be tilled and sown.

And he will judge between many peoples, and will decide concerning strong nations afar off. And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, nor s

that there came a messenger to Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,

Can thou bind the wild-ox with his band in the furrow? Or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

Thou shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.

Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he [continually] open and harrow his ground?

The sluggard will not plow because of the winter. Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Shall horses run upon the rock? Will [a man] plow [there] with oxen? That ye have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

When thou till the ground, it shall not henceforth yield to thee its strength. A fugitive and a wanderer thou shall be on the earth.

For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are yet five years, in which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest.