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Genesis 1:29 ESV / 133 helpful votes
And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.
James 5:7 ESV / 114 helpful votes
Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains.
2 Timothy 2:6 ESV / 101 helpful votes
It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops.
Leviticus 19:19 ESV / 94 helpful votes
“You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind. You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor shall you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of material.
Deuteronomy 11:13-15 ESV / 85 helpful votes
“And if you will indeed obey my commandments that I command you today, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, he will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil. And he will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.
Psalm 104:14 ESV / 77 helpful votes
You cause the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth
Exodus 23:10-11 ESV / 70 helpful votes
“For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield, but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.
Isaiah 17:10-11 ESV / 66 helpful votes
For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge; therefore, though you plant pleasant plants and sow the vine-branch of a stranger, though you make them grow on the day that you plant them, and make them blossom in the morning that you sow, yet the harvest will flee away in a day of grief and incurable pain.
Genesis 2:15 ESV / 61 helpful votes
The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.
1 Corinthians 3:6 ESV / 60 helpful votes
I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.
Matthew 3:12 ESV / 59 helpful votes
His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”
Psalm 85:12 ESV / 59 helpful votes
Yes, the Lord will give what is good, and our land will yield its increase.
Hebrews 13:16 ESV / 57 helpful votes
Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.
Isaiah 41:15 ESV / 57 helpful votes
Behold, I make of you a threshing sledge, new, sharp, and having teeth; you shall thresh the mountains and crush them, and you shall make the hills like chaff;
Leviticus 19:23-25 ESV / 57 helpful votes
“When you come into the land and plant any kind of tree for food, then you shall regard its fruit as forbidden. Three years it shall be forbidden to you; it must not be eaten. And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to the Lord. But in the fifth year you may eat of its fruit, to increase its yield for you: I am the Lord your God.
Matthew 13:30 ESV / 55 helpful votes
Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.’”
Matthew 13:3-8 ESV / 54 helpful votes
And he told them many things in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, but when the sun rose they were scorched. And since they had no root, they withered away. Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. …
Genesis 1:11-12 ESV / 53 helpful votes
And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Isaiah 28:28 ESV / 52 helpful votes
Does one crush grain for bread? No, he does not thresh it forever; when he drives his cart wheel over it with his horses, he does not crush it.
Luke 9:62 ESV / 51 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
Deuteronomy 22:9-11 ESV / 51 helpful votes
“You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole yield be forfeited, the crop that you have sown and the yield of the vineyard. You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together. You shall not wear cloth of wool and linen mixed together.
Hebrews 6:7 ESV / 49 helpful votes
For land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God.
Deuteronomy 22:10 ESV / 49 helpful votes
You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
Luke 3:9 ESV / 48 helpful votes
Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”
Leviticus 11:1-47 ESV / 48 helpful votes
And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them, “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, These are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth. Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. Nevertheless, among those that chew the cud or part the hoof, you shall not eat these: The camel, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. …
Matthew 9:37 ESV / 47 helpful votes
Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few;
Isaiah 28:24 ESV / 47 helpful votes
Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? Does he continually open and harrow his ground?
Matthew 13:1-58 ESV / 46 helpful votes
That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat down. And the whole crowd stood on the beach. And he told them many things in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, …
Jeremiah 5:24 ESV / 46 helpful votes
They do not say in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the Lord our God, who gives the rain in its season, the autumn rain and the spring rain, and keeps for us the weeks appointed for the harvest.’
1 Corinthians 15:38-39 ESV / 45 helpful votes
But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body. For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.
John 4:35 ESV / 45 helpful votes
Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest.
Luke 10:2 ESV / 45 helpful votes
And he said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.
Ezekiel 27:17 ESV / 45 helpful votes
Judah and the land of Israel traded with you; they exchanged for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, meal, honey, oil, and balm.
Isaiah 30:24 ESV / 45 helpful votes
And the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork.
Isaiah 28:27 ESV / 45 helpful votes
Dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a cart wheel rolled over cumin, but dill is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod.
Job 1:14 ESV / 45 helpful votes
And there came a messenger to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them,
2 Kings 19:29 ESV / 45 helpful votes
“And this shall be the sign for you: this year eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs of the same. Then in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
1 Samuel 13:21 ESV / 45 helpful votes
And the charge was two-thirds of a shekel for the plowshares and for the mattocks, and a third of a shekel for sharpening the axes and for setting the goads.
Micah 4:1-4 ESV / 44 helpful votes
It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and it shall be lifted up above the hills; and peoples shall flow to it, and many nations shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide for strong nations far away; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore; but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and no one shall make them afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.
Ecclesiastes 5:9 ESV / 44 helpful votes
But this is gain for a land in every way: a king committed to cultivated fields.
Hosea 10:12 ESV / 43 helpful votes
Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the Lord, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.
Isaiah 32:20 ESV / 43 helpful votes
Happy are you who sow beside all waters, who let the feet of the ox and the donkey range free.
Ecclesiastes 11:4-6 ESV / 43 helpful votes
He who observes the wind will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap. As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything. In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.
Matthew 6:26 ESV / 42 helpful votes
Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
Job 39:10 ESV / 42 helpful votes
Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes, or will he harrow the valleys after you?
1 Samuel 6:7 ESV / 42 helpful votes
Now then, take and prepare a new cart and two milk cows on which there has never come a yoke, and yoke the cows to the cart, but take their calves home, away from them.
Judges 3:31 ESV / 42 helpful votes
After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed 600 of the Philistines with an oxgoad, and he also saved Israel.
Matthew 13:23 ESV / 41 helpful votes
As for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.”
Leviticus 19:9 ESV / 41 helpful votes
“When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest.
1 Kings 5:11 ESV / 40 helpful votes
While Solomon gave Hiram 20,000 cors of wheat as food for his household, and 20,000 cors of beaten oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.
Deuteronomy 25:4 ESV / 40 helpful votes
“You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.
Genesis 37:7 ESV / 40 helpful votes
Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and stood upright. And behold, your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.”
2 Chronicles 26:10 ESV / 39 helpful votes
And he built towers in the wilderness and cut out many cisterns, for he had large herds, both in the Shephelah and in the plain, and he had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soil.
1 Corinthians 3:6-9 ESV / 38 helpful votes
I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building.
Psalm 65:10 ESV / 38 helpful votes
You water its furrows abundantly, settling its ridges, softening it with showers, and blessing its growth.
Deuteronomy 24:19 ESV / 38 helpful votes
“When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
Deuteronomy 22:9 ESV / 38 helpful votes
“You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole yield be forfeited, the crop that you have sown and the yield of the vineyard.
Matthew 7:19 ESV / 37 helpful votes
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
Deuteronomy 28:1-68 ESV / 37 helpful votes
“And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God. Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. …
Matthew 12:1 ESV / 36 helpful votes
At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.
Leviticus 23:22 ESV / 36 helpful votes
“And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, nor shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.”
Ruth 2:17 ESV / 35 helpful votes
So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.
Matthew 13:18 ESV / 34 helpful votes
“Hear then the parable of the sower:
Isaiah 9:3 ESV / 34 helpful votes
You have multiplied the nation; you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as they are glad when they divide the spoil.
Genesis 8:22 ESV / 34 helpful votes
While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”
Deuteronomy 11:14 ESV / 33 helpful votes
He will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil.
Luke 12:18 ESV / 32 helpful votes
And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
Zechariah 10:1 ESV / 32 helpful votes
Ask rain from the Lord in the season of the spring rain, from the Lord who makes the storm clouds, and he will give them showers of rain, to everyone the vegetation in the field.
Micah 4:12 ESV / 32 helpful votes
But they do not know the thoughts of the Lord; they do not understand his plan, that he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor.
Amos 1:3 ESV / 32 helpful votes
Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.
Proverbs 3:10 ESV / 32 helpful votes
Then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.
Deuteronomy 23:24-25 ESV / 32 helpful votes
“If you go into your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, as many as you wish, but you shall not put any in your bag. If you go into your neighbor’s standing grain, you may pluck the ears with your hand, but you shall not put a sickle to your neighbor’s standing grain.
Leviticus 19:9-10 ESV / 32 helpful votes
“When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.
Genesis 9:20 ESV / 32 helpful votes
Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard.
2 Corinthians 9:6 ESV / 30 helpful votes
The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
Hosea 12:11 ESV / 30 helpful votes
If there is iniquity in Gilead, they shall surely come to nothing: in Gilgal they sacrifice bulls; their altars also are like stone heaps on the furrows of the field.
Isaiah 32:2 ESV / 30 helpful votes
Each will be like a hiding place from the wind, a shelter from the storm, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.
Psalm 1:3 ESV / 30 helpful votes
He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
Genesis 26:12 ESV / 30 helpful votes
And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. The Lord blessed him,
Isaiah 5:24 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will be as rottenness, and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Job 29:23 ESV / 29 helpful votes
They waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.
Hosea 6:3 ESV / 28 helpful votes
Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.”
Jeremiah 9:22 ESV / 28 helpful votes
Speak, “Thus declares the Lord: ‘The dead bodies of men shall fall like dung upon the open field, like sheaves after the reaper, and none shall gather them.’”
Jeremiah 4:11 ESV / 28 helpful votes
At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A hot wind from the bare heights in the desert toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow or cleanse,
Ruth 2:15 ESV / 28 helpful votes
When she rose to glean, Boaz instructed his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not reproach her.
Leviticus 25:1-7 ESV / 28 helpful votes
The Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you, the land shall keep a Sabbath to the Lord. For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its fruits, but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard. You shall not reap what grows of itself in your harvest, or gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land. …
Isaiah 30:25 ESV / 27 helpful votes
And on every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks running with water, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
Isaiah 17:13 ESV / 27 helpful votes
The nations roar like the roaring of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind and whirling dust before the storm.
Isaiah 3:15 ESV / 27 helpful votes
What do you mean by crushing my people, by grinding the face of the poor?” declares the Lord God of hosts.
Proverbs 21:1 ESV / 27 helpful votes
The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will.
Psalm 126:1-6 ESV / 27 helpful votes
A Song of Ascents. When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream. Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.” The Lord has done great things for us; we are glad. Restore our fortunes, O Lord, like streams in the Negeb! Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy! …
Psalm 35:5 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Let them be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of the Lord driving them away!
Job 24:10 ESV / 27 helpful votes
They go about naked, without clothing; hungry, they carry the sheaves;
Job 21:18 ESV / 27 helpful votes
That they are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?
1 Chronicles 21:23 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Then Ornan said to David, “Take it, and let my lord the king do what seems good to him. See, I give the oxen for burnt offerings and the threshing sledges for the wood and the wheat for a grain offering; I give it all.”
1 Chronicles 4:10-41 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from harm so that it might not bring me pain!” And God granted what he asked. Chelub, the brother of Shuhah, fathered Mehir, who fathered Eshton. Eshton fathered Beth-rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah, the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Recah. The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah; and the sons of Othniel: Hathath and Meonothai. Meonothai fathered Ophrah; and Seraiah fathered Joab, the father of Ge-harashim, so-called because they were craftsmen. …
2 Samuel 24:22 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Then Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Here are the oxen for the burnt offering and the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.
Ruth 2:7 ESV / 27 helpful votes
She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the reapers.’ So she came, and she has continued from early morning until now, except for a short rest.”
Deuteronomy 28:8 ESV / 27 helpful votes
The Lord will command the blessing on you in your barns and in all that you undertake. And he will bless you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 15:1-10 ESV / 27 helpful votes
“At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release. And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not exact it of his neighbor, his brother, because the Lord’s release has been proclaimed. Of a foreigner you may exact it, but whatever of yours is with your brother your hand shall release. But there will be no poor among you; for the Lord will bless you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess— if only you will strictly obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all this commandment that I command you today. …
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