20 Bible Verses about Tilling The Soil

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Genesis 3:23

And Jehovah God will send. him forth from the garden of Eden to work the earth which he was taken from there.

Genesis 3:17-19

And to Adam he said, Because thou didst listen to the voice of thy wife, and thou wilt eat from the tree which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat from it; cursed the earth for thy sake; in labor shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; And thorns and weeds shall it cause to sprout forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the green herb of the field. In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat food until thy turning back to the earth; for out of it thou wert taken; for dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou turn back.

Isaiah 7:25

And all the mountains which shall be dressed with the hoe, the fear of sharp points and thorns shall not come there: and it was for the sending forth of the ox and for the treading of sheep.

Ezekiel 36:34

And the desolate land shall be worked instead of its being a desolation before the eyes of all passing by.

2 Samuel 9:10

And work for him the land, thou and thy sons, and thy servants, and bring in and it being bread for the son of thy lord, and they shall eat: and Mephibosheth, son of thy lord, shall eat always bread upon my table. And to Ziba, fifteen sons and twenty servants.

Ecclesiastes 5:9

And the profit of the earth in all: it is the king being served to the field.

Ezekiel 36:9

For behold me for you, and I turned to you and ye were tilled and sown.

Micah 4:3

And he judged between many peoples, and he admonished to strong nations even to far off; and they beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning-knives: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, and they shall no more learn war.

Job 1:14

And a messenger came to Job; and he will say, The oxen were ploughing, and the he asses were feeding upon their hands.

Job 39:10

Wilt thou bind the buffalo in the furrow with cords, or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

Amos 6:12

Shall horses run upon the rock? will he plough with oxen? for ye turned judgment to poison and the fruit of justice to wormwood.

Genesis 4:12

When thou shalt work the earth she shall not add to give her strength to thee. Wandering and fleeing shalt thou be in the earth.

Genesis 45:6

For this the second year of the famine in the midst of the land: and yet five years in which no ploughing and reaping.

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