20 Bible Verses about Tilling The Soil

He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread; But he that followeth after vain persons'shall have poverty enough.

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

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

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

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread; But he that followeth after vain persons is void of understanding.

And all the hills that were digged with the mattock, thou shalt not come thither 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 that passed by.

And thou shalt till the land for him, thou, and thy sons, and thy servants; and thou shalt bring in the fruits , that thy master's son may have bread to eat: but Mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat bread alway at my table. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

Moreover the profit of the earth 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, neither shall they learn war any more.

that there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them;

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

Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.

Doth he that ploweth to sow plow continually? doth he continually open and harrow his ground?

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

Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? that ye have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood;

when thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee its strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth.

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