'Sowing' in the Bible
And God saith, 'Let the earth yield tender grass, herb sowing seed, fruit-tree (whose seed is in itself) making fruit after its kind, on the earth:' and it is so.
And the earth bringeth forth tender grass, herb sowing seed after its kind, and tree making fruit (whose seed is in itself) after its kind; and God seeth that it is good;
And God saith, 'Lo, I have given to you every herb sowing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree sowing seed, to you it is for food;
and reached to you hath the threshing, the gathering, and the gathering doth reach the sowing -time; and ye have eaten your bread to satiety, and have dwelt confidently in your land.
Those sowing in tears, with singing do reap,
The wicked is getting a lying wage, And whoso is sowing righteousness -- a true reward.
Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out.
Happy are ye sowing by all waters, Sending forth the foot of the ox and the ass!
And thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Woe to those sowing pillows for all joints of the arm, And to those making the kerchiefs For the head of every stature -- to hunt souls, The souls do ye hunt of My people? And the souls ye have do ye keep alive?
Because of the sowing of peace, The vine doth give her fruit, And the earth doth give her increase, And the heavens do give their dew, And I have caused the remnant of this people To inherit all these.
and in his sowing, some indeed fell by the way, and the fowls did come and devour them,
Another simile he set before them, saying: 'The reign of the heavens was likened to a man sowing good seed in his field,
And he answering said to them, 'He who is sowing the good seed is the Son of Man,
and it came to pass, in the sowing, some fell by the way, and the fowls of the heaven did come and devour it;
He who is sowing doth sow the word;
'The sower went forth to sow his seed, and in his sowing some indeed fell beside the way, and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the heaven did devour it.
'And he who is reaping doth receive a reward, and doth gather fruit to life age-during, that both he who is sowing and he who is reaping may rejoice together;
And this: He who is sowing sparingly, sparingly also shall reap; and he who is sowing in blessings, in blessings also shall reap;
because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;