'Ploughing' in the Bible

Because these two years the famine is in the heart of the land, and yet are five years, in which there is neither ploughing nor harvest;

Six days shalt thou work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest; in ploughing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

Do not do your ploughing with an ox and an ass yoked together.

Then on the seventh day, before he went into the bride's room, the men of the town said to him, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said to them, If you had not been ploughing with my cow you would not have got the answer to my question.

And he will make them captains of thousands and of fifties; some he will put to work ploughing and cutting his grain and making his instruments of war and building his war-carriages.

And he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was ploughing with twelve yokes before him, and he with the twelfth; and Elijah went over to him, and cast his mantle on him.

And there came a messenger to Job and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the asses feeding beside them;

The hater of work will not do his ploughing because of the winter; so at the time of grain-cutting he will be requesting food and will get nothing.

By ploughing his land a man will have bread in full measure; but he who goes after good-for-nothing persons will be poor enough.

Is the ploughman for ever ploughing? does he not get the earth ready and broken up for the seed?

And the oxen and the young asses which are used for ploughing, will have salted grain which has been made free from the waste with fork and basket.

You have been ploughing sin, you have got in a store of evil, the fruit of deceit has been your food: for you put faith in your way, in the number of your men of war.

But, who is he of you -- having a servant ploughing or feeding -- who, to him having come in out of the field, will say, Having come near, recline at meat?

Or has he us in mind? Yes, it was said for us; because it is right for the ploughman to do his ploughing in hope, and for him who is crushing the grain to do his work hoping for a part in the fruits of it.