20 Bible Verses about Tilling The Soil
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He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.
And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden, to dress it, and to keep it.
Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
And she again bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to 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 sorrow 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 shalt return to the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou return.
He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.
And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.
And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
Thou therefore, and thy sons, and thy servants, shall till the land for him, and thou shalt bring in the fruits, that thy master's son may have food to eat: but Mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat bread always 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 to you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:
And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plow-shares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
And there came a messenger to Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield to thee its strength: A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in which there shall neither be tillage nor harvest.
