20 Bible Verses about Tilling The Soil
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He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he pursuing vanities shall have poverty enough.
And Jehovah God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.
therefore Jehovah God sent him out from the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he had been taken.
And she bore again, his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
And to Adam He said, Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it! The ground is cursed for your sake. In pain shall you eat of it all the days of your life. It shall also bring forth thorns and thistles to you, and you shall eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.
He who tills his land shall be satisfied with bread; but he who follows vanities lacks heart.
And all hills which were hoed with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending out of the ox, and for the trampling of sheep.
And the waste land shall be tilled, instead of being a ruin before all passing by.
And you shall till the land for him, you and your sons and your servants. And you shall bring in the fruits so that your master's son may have bread to eat. But Mephibosheth, your master's son, shall eat bread always at my table. And Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
And the advantage of a land, it is for all; even a king has a field being tilled.
For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown.
And He shall judge between many peoples, and will decide for strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, And they shall not still learn war.
And there came a messenger to Job and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them.
Can you tie the wild ox in the furrow with his rope? Or will he harrow the valleys for you?
Does the plowman plow all day to sow? Does he open and break the clods of his ground?
The lazy one will not plow; after the autumn he shall beg in harvest and have nothing.
Shall horses run on the rock? Will one plow there with oxen? For you have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock;
When you till the ground, it will not again give its strength to you. And you shall be a vagabond and a fugitive in the earth.
For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there will be no plowing nor harvest.
