20 Bible Verses about Tilling The Soil

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Proverbs 28:19

By ploughing his land a man will have bread in full measure; but he who goes after good-for-nothing persons will be poor enough.

Genesis 3:23

So the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to be a worker on the earth from which he was taken.

Genesis 4:2

Then again she became with child and gave birth to Abel, his brother. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a farmer.

Genesis 3:17-19

And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life. Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food; With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

Proverbs 12:11

He who does work on his land will not be short of bread; but he who goes after foolish men is without sense.

Isaiah 7:25

And they will send out the oxen and the sheep on all the hills which before were worked with the spade, ... fear of blackberries and thorns.

Ezekiel 36:34

And the land which was waste will be farmed, in place of being a waste in the eyes of everyone who went by.

2 Samuel 9:10

And you and your sons and your servants are to take care of the land for him, and get in the fruit of it, so that your master's son may have food: but Mephibosheth, your master's son, will have a place at my table at all times. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

Ecclesiastes 5:9

It is good generally for a country where the land is worked to have a king.

Ezekiel 36:9

For truly I am for you, and I will be turned to you, and you will be ploughed and planted:

Micah 4:3

And he will be judge between great peoples, and strong nations far away will be ruled by his decisions; their swords will be hammered into plough-blades and their spears into vine-knives: nations will no longer be lifting up their swords against one another, and knowledge of war will have gone for ever.

Job 1:14

And a man came to Job, and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the asses were taking their food by their side:

Job 39:10

Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you?

Deuteronomy 22:10

Do not do your ploughing with an ox and an ass yoked together.

Isaiah 28:24

Is the ploughman for ever ploughing? does he not get the earth ready and broken up for the seed?

Amos 6:12

Is it possible for horses to go running on the rock? may the sea be ploughed with oxen? for the right to be turned by you into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into a bitter plant?

Genesis 4:12

No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth.

Genesis 45:6

For these two years have been years of need, and there are still five more years to come in which there will be no ploughing or cutting of grain.

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