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Agriculture of the Sower Matthew 13:3–8, 19–23

And He told them many things in parables, saying, “A farmer went out to sow his seed. / And as he was sowing, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. / Some fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly because the soil was shallow.

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Agriculture of the Sower Luke 8:5–15

“A farmer went out to sow his seed. And as he was sowing, some seed fell along the path, where it was trampled, and the birds of the air devoured it. / Some fell on rocky ground, and when it came up, the seedlings withered because they had no moisture. / Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the seedlings.

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Agriculture of the Tares Matthew 13:24–30, 36–43

Jesus put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. / But while everyone was asleep, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and slipped away. / When the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the weeds also appeared.

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Agriculture or Farming was Promoted Amongst the Jews by Allotments to Each Family Numbers 36:7–9

No inheritance in Israel may be transferred from tribe to tribe, because each of the Israelites is to retain the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. / Every daughter who possesses an inheritance from any Israelite tribe must marry within a clan of the tribe of her father, so that every Israelite will possess the inheritance of his fathers. / No inheritance may be transferred from one tribe to another, for each tribe of Israel must retain its inheritance.”

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Agriculture or Farming was Promoted Amongst the Jews by Separation from Other Nations Exodus 33:16

For how then can it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, unless You go with us? How else will we be distinguished from all the other people on the face of the earth?”

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Agriculture or Farming was Promoted Amongst the Jews by The Prohibition Against Usury Exodus 22:25

If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.

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Agriculture or Farming was Promoted Amongst the Jews by The Promises of God's Blessings On Leviticus 26:4

I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.

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Agriculture or Farming was Promoted Amongst the Jews by The Promises of God's Blessings On Deuteronomy 7:13

He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your land—your grain, new wine, and oil, the young of your herds and the lambs of your flocks—in the land that He swore to your fathers to give you.

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Agriculture or Farming was Promoted Amongst the Jews by The Promises of God's Blessings On Deuteronomy 11:14, 15

then I will provide rain for your land in season, the autumn and spring rains, that you may gather your grain, new wine, and oil. / And I will provide grass in the fields for your livestock, and you will eat and be satisfied.

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Agriculture or Farming was Promoted Amongst the Jews by The Rights of Redemption Leviticus 25:23–28

The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me. / Thus for every piece of property you possess, you must provide for the redemption of the land. / If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his nearest of kin may come and redeem what his brother has sold.

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Agriculture or Farming: Beasts Used in The Donkey Deuteronomy 22:10

Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.

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Agriculture or Farming: Beasts Used in The Horse Isaiah 28:28

Grain for bread must be ground, but it is not endlessly threshed. Though the wheels of the cart roll over it, the horses do not crush it.

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Agriculture or Farming: Beasts Used in The Ox Deuteronomy 25:4

Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.

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Agriculture or Farming: Climate of Canaan Favourable To Deuteronomy 11:10, 11

For the land that you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated on foot, like a vegetable garden. / But the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in the rain from heaven.

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Agriculture or Farming: Contributes to the Support of All Ecclesiastes 5:9

The produce of the earth is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields.

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Agriculture or Farming: Culture of the Church 1 Corinthians 3:9

For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.

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Agriculture or Farming: Culture of the Heart Jeremiah 4:3

For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.

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Agriculture or Farming: Culture of the Heart Hosea 10:12

Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.

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Agriculture or Farming: Diligence In, Abundantly Recompensed Proverbs 12:11

The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies lacks judgment.

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Agriculture or Farming: Diligence In, Abundantly Recompensed Proverbs 13:23

Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor, but without justice it is swept away.

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Agriculture or Farming: Diligence In, Abundantly Recompensed Proverbs 28:19

The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

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Agriculture or Farming: Diligence In, Abundantly Recompensed Hebrews 6:7

For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God.

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Agriculture or Farming: Enactments to Protect: Against Injuring the Produce of Exodus 22:5

If a man grazes his livestock in a field or vineyard and allows them to stray so that they graze in someone else’s field, he must make restitution from the best of his own field or vineyard.

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Agriculture or Farming: Enactments to Protect: Against the Trespass of Cattle Exodus 22:5

If a man grazes his livestock in a field or vineyard and allows them to stray so that they graze in someone else’s field, he must make restitution from the best of his own field or vineyard.

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Agriculture or Farming: Enactments to Protect: Not to Covet the Fields of Another Deuteronomy 5:21

You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house or field, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

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Agriculture or Farming: Enactments to Protect: Not to Cut Down Crops of Another Deuteronomy 23:25

When you enter your neighbor’s grainfield, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.

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Agriculture or Farming: Enactments to Protect: Not to Move Landmarks Deuteronomy 19:14

You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, which was set up by your ancestors to mark the inheritance you shall receive in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

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Agriculture or Farming: Enactments to Protect: Not to Move Landmarks Proverbs 22:28

Do not move an ancient boundary stone which your fathers have placed.

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Agriculture or Farming: Grief Occasioned by the Failure of the Fruits of Joel 1:11

Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.

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Agriculture or Farming: Grief Occasioned by the Failure of the Fruits of Amos 5:16, 17

Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail. / There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD.

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Agriculture or Farming: Implements of The Axe 1 Samuel 13:20

Instead, all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes, and sickles.

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Agriculture or Farming: Implements of The Cart 1 Samuel 6:7

Now, therefore, prepare one new cart with two milk cows that have never been yoked. Hitch the cows to the cart, but take their calves away and pen them up.

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Agriculture or Farming: Implements of The Cart Isaiah 28:27, 28

Surely caraway is not threshed with a sledge, and the wheel of a cart is not rolled over the cumin. But caraway is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod. / Grain for bread must be ground, but it is not endlessly threshed. Though the wheels of the cart roll over it, the horses do not crush it.

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Agriculture or Farming: Implements of The Fan Isaiah 30:24

The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.

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Agriculture or Farming: Implements of The Fan Matthew 3:12

His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

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Agriculture or Farming: Implements of The Flail Isaiah 28:27

Surely caraway is not threshed with a sledge, and the wheel of a cart is not rolled over the cumin. But caraway is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod.

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Agriculture or Farming: Implements of The Fork 1 Samuel 13:21

The charge was a pim for sharpening a plowshare or mattock, a third of a shekel for sharpening a pitchfork or an axe, and a third of a shekel for repointing an oxgoad.

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Agriculture or Farming: Implements of The Harrow 2 Samuel 12:31

David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes, and he made them work at the brick kilns. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.

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Agriculture or Farming: Implements of The Mattock 1 Samuel 13:20

Instead, all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes, and sickles.

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Agriculture or Farming: Implements of The Mattock Isaiah 7:25

For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.

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Agriculture or Farming: Implements of The Plough 1 Samuel 13:20

Instead, all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes, and sickles.

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Agriculture or Farming: Implements of The Pruning-Hook Isaiah 18:5

For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, He will cut off the shoots with a pruning knife and remove and discard the branches.

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Agriculture or Farming: Implements of The Pruning-Hook Joel 3:10

Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’

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Agriculture or Farming: Implements of The Shovel Isaiah 30:24

The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.

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Agriculture or Farming: Implements of The Sickle Deuteronomy 16:9

You are to count off seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain.

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Agriculture or Farming: Implements of The Sickle Deuteronomy 23:25

When you enter your neighbor’s grainfield, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.

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Agriculture or Farming: Implements of The Sieve Amos 9:9

“For surely I will give the command, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations as grain is sifted in a sieve; but not a pebble will reach the ground.

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Agriculture or Farming: Implements of The Teethed Threshing Instrument Isaiah 41:15

Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.

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Agriculture or Farming: Man Doomed to Labour In, After the Fall Genesis 3:23

Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

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Agriculture or Farming: Not to be Engaged in During the Sabbatical Year Exodus 23:10, 11

For six years you are to sow your land and gather its produce, / but in the seventh year you must let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people may eat from the field and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and olive grove.

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Agriculture or Farming: Often Performed by Hirelings 1 Chronicles 27:26

Ezri son of Chelub was in charge of the workers in the fields who tilled the soil.

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Agriculture or Farming: Often Performed by Hirelings 2 Chronicles 26:10

Since he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fertile fields.

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Agriculture or Farming: Often Performed by Hirelings Matthew 20:8

When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with the last ones hired and moving on to the first.’

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Agriculture or Farming: Often Performed by Hirelings Luke 17:7

Which of you whose servant comes in from plowing or shepherding in the field will say to him, ‘Come at once and sit down to eat’?

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Binding Genesis 37:7

We were binding sheaves of grain in the field, and suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to mine.”

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Binding Matthew 13:30

Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.’”

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Digging Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Digging Luke 13:8

‘Sir,’ the man replied, ‘leave it alone again this year, until I dig around it and fertilize it.

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Digging Luke 16:3

The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, now that my master is taking away my position? I am too weak to dig and too ashamed to beg.

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Gathering out the Stones Isaiah 5:2

He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour!

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Gleaning Leviticus 19:9

When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Gleaning Ruth 2:3

So Ruth departed and went out into the field and gleaned after the harvesters. And she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelech.

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Grafting Romans 11:17–19, 24

Now if some branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others to share in the nourishment of the olive root, / do not boast over those branches. If you do, remember this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. / You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.”

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Harrowing Job 39:10

Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness? Will he plow the valleys behind you?

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Harrowing Isaiah 28:24

Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil?

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Hedging Isaiah 5:2, 5

He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour! / Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Hedging Hosea 2:6

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Manuring Isaiah 25:10

For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain. But Moab will be trampled in his place as straw is trodden into the dung pile.

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Manuring Luke 14:34, 35

Salt is good, but if the salt loses its savor, with what will it be seasoned? / It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile, and it is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Mowing Psalm 129:7

unable to fill the hands of the reaper, or the arms of the binder of sheaves.

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Mowing Amos 7:1

This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts just after the king’s harvest, as the late spring crop was coming up.

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Planting Proverbs 31:16

She appraises a field and buys it; from her earnings she plants a vineyard.

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Planting Isaiah 44:14

He cuts down cedars or retrieves a cypress or oak. He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a laurel, and the rain makes it grow.

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Planting Jeremiah 31:5

Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria; the farmers will plant and enjoy the fruit.

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Ploughing Job 1:14

a messenger came and reported to Job: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Pruning Leviticus 25:3

For six years you may sow your field and prune your vineyard and gather its crops.

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Pruning Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Pruning John 15:2

He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Reaping Isaiah 17:5

as the reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the ears with his arm, as one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Sowing Ecclesiastes 11:4

He who watches the wind will fail to sow, and he who observes the clouds will fail to reap.

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Sowing Isaiah 32:20

Blessed are those who sow beside abundant waters, who let the ox and donkey range freely.

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Sowing Matthew 13:3

And He told them many things in parables, saying, “A farmer went out to sow his seed.

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Stacking Exodus 22:6

If a fire breaks out and spreads to thornbushes so that it consumes stacked or standing grain, or the whole field, the one who started the fire must make full restitution.

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Storing in Barns Matthew 6:26

Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns—and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Storing in Barns Matthew 13:30

Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.’”

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Threshing Deuteronomy 25:4

Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Threshing Judges 6:11

Then the angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Watering Deuteronomy 11:10

For the land that you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated on foot, like a vegetable garden.

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Watering 1 Corinthians 3:6–8

I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. / So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. / He who plants and he who waters are one in purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor.

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Weeding Matthew 13:28

‘An enemy did this,’ he replied. So the servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Winnowing Ruth 3:2

Now is not Boaz, with whose servant girls you have been working, a relative of ours? In fact, tonight he is winnowing barley on the threshing floor.

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Agriculture or Farming: Operations in Winnowing Matthew 3:12

His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

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Agriculture or Farming: Patriarchs Engaged In Genesis 4:2

Later she gave birth to Cain’s brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, while Cain was a tiller of the soil.

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Agriculture or Farming: Patriarchs Engaged In Genesis 9:20

Now Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.

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Agriculture or Farming: Peace Favourable To Isaiah 2:4

Then He will judge between the nations and arbitrate for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor train anymore for war.

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Agriculture or Farming: Peace Favourable To Jeremiah 31:24

And Judah and all its cities will dwell together in the land, the farmers and those who move with the flocks,

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Agriculture or Farming: Persons Engaged In, Called: Husbandmen 2 Chronicles 26:10

Since he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fertile fields.

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Agriculture or Farming: Persons Engaged In, Called: Labourers Matthew 9:37

Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.

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Agriculture or Farming: Persons Engaged In, Called: Labourers Matthew 20:1

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.

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Agriculture or Farming: Persons Engaged In, Called: Tillers of the Ground Genesis 4:2

Later she gave birth to Cain’s brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, while Cain was a tiller of the soil.

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