20 Bible Verses about Tilling The Soil
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He that tilleth his ground, shall have plenty of bread, but, he that pursueth empty-heads, shall have plenty of poverty.
So Yahweh God took the man, - and placed him in the garden of Eden, to till it and to keeps it.
So Yahweh God put him forth from the garden of Eden, - to till the ground wherefrom he had been taken.
And she went on to hear his brother, Abel, - and Abel became a feeder of sheep, whereas Cain, was a tiller of the round.
And, to the man, he said, Because thou didst hearken to the voice of thy wife, and so didst eat of the tree as to which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, Accursed be the ground for thy sake, In pain, shalt thou eat of it, all the days of thy life; Thorn also and thistle, shall it shoot forth to thee, - when thou hast come to eat of the herb of the field: In the sweat of thy face, shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground, because therefrom, wast thou taken, - For, dust, thou art, And, unto dust, shalt thou return.
He that tilleth his land, shall be filled with food, but, he that runneth after worthless men, lacketh sense.
But all the hills which, with the hoe, can be weeded, - there shall not come thither, the fear of briars anti thorns, - but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the tread of lesser cattle.
And the land that was made desolate shall be tilled, - Whereas it was a desolation, before the eyes of every passer-by;
therefore shalt thou till for him the ground, thou, and thy sons, and thy servants, and shalt bring in, so that thy lord's son may have bread to eat, but, Mephibosheth, thy lord's son, shall continually eat bread at my table. Now, Ziba, had fifteen sons, and twenty servants.
And, the profit of the earth, is, for all, - a king, by the field, is served.
For lo! I am towards you, Therefore will I turn towards you, And ye shall be tilled and sewn;
And he will judge between many peoples, and be umpire to strong nations far and wide, - and they will beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks, Nation - against nation - shall not lift up sword, neither shall they learn - any more - to make war.
And, a messenger, came in unto Job, and said, - The oxen, were plowing, and, the asses, feeding beside them;
Canst thou bind the wild-ox, so that - with the ridge - shall run his cord? Or will he harrow the furrows after thee?
All day long, doth the plowman plow for sowing? Doth he continue laying open and harrowing his soil?
By reason of the autumn, a sluggard will not plough, therefore shall he beg in harvest, and there be nothing.
Shall horses run upon crag? or will a man plough there with oxen? For ye have turned to poison the sentence of justice, and the fruit of righteousness, to wormwood:
Though thou till the ground, it shall not go on to give its vigour to thee. A wanderer and a fugitive, shalt thou be in the earth.
For these two years, hath the famine been in the midst of the land, - and, yet five years, are there, in which there shall be neither ploughing, nor harvest.
