Agriculture

And the earth bringeth forth tender grass, herb sowing seed after its kind, and tree making fruit (whose seed <FI>is<Fi> in itself) after its kind; and God seeth that <FI>it is<Fi> good;

I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth; — read the full passage →

And in that day Jesus, having gone forth from the house, was sitting by the sea, — read the full passage →

Sow for yourselves in righteousness, Reap according to loving-kindness, Till for yourselves tillage of knowledge, To seek Jehovah, Till he come and shew righteousness to you.

`I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman;

And he said, `Thus is the reign of God: as if a man may cast the seed on the earth,

`My statutes ye do keep: thy cattle thou dost not cause to gender <FI>with<Fi> diverse kinds; thy field thou dost not sow with diverse kinds, and a garment of diverse kinds, shaatnez, doth not go up upon thee.

As a grain of mustard, which, whenever it may be sown on the earth, is less than any of the seeds that are on the earth;

Build ye houses, and abide; and plant ye gardens, and eat their fruit;

`And when ye come in unto the land, and have planted all <FI>kinds<Fi> of trees <FI>for<Fi> food, then ye have reckoned as uncircumcised its fruit, three years it is to you uncircumcised, it is not eaten, — read the full passage →

I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth;

`Thou dost not sow thy vineyard <FI>with<Fi> divers things, lest the fulness of the seed which thou dost sow, and the increase of the vineyard, be separated. — read the full passage →

Is it not yet a very little, And turned hath Lebanon to a fruitful field, And the fruitful field for a forest is reckoned?

Be patient, then, brethren, till the presence of the Lord; lo, the husbandman doth expect the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, till he may receive rain--early and latter;

`Ye do not make to yourselves idols; and graven image or standing image ye do not set up to yourselves; and a stone of imagery ye do not put in your land, to bow yourselves to it; for I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God. — read the full passage →

These who are coming in by name <FI>are<Fi> princes in their families, and the house of their fathers have broken forth into a multitude; — read the full passage →

And Jehovah God taketh the man, and causeth him to rest in the garden of Eden, to serve it, and to keep it.

And the abundance of a land is for all. A king for a field is served.

Words of a preacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem: — read the full passage →

Whoso is tilling the ground is satisfied <FI>with<Fi> bread, And whoso is pursuing vanities is lacking heart,

Causing grass to spring up for cattle, And herb for the service of man, To bring forth bread from the earth,

and he buildeth towers in the wilderness, and diggeth many wells, for he had much cattle, both in the low country and in the plain, husbandmen and vine-dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel; for he was a lover of the ground.

And Jabez calleth to the God of Israel, saying, `If blessing Thou dost bless me, then Thou hast made great my border, and Thy hand hath been with me, and Thou hast kept <FI>me<Fi> from evil--not to grieve me;' and God bringeth in that which he asked. — read the full passage →

`And thou hast loved Jehovah thy God, and kept His charge, and His statutes, and His judgments, and His commands, all the days; — read the full passage →

`All the command which I am commanding thee to-day ye observe to do, so that ye live, and have multiplied, and gone in, and possessed the land which Jehovah hath sworn to your fathers; — read the full passage →

And Noah remaineth a man of the ground, and planteth a vineyard,

the labouring husbandman it behoveth first of the fruits to partake;

`And in your reaping the harvest of your land ye do not completely reap the corner of thy field, and the gleaning of thy harvest thou dost not gather,

In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth-- — read the full passage →

And they have not said in their heart, `Let us fear, we pray you, Jehovah our God, who is giving rain, The sprinkling and the gathered, in its season, The appointed weeks of harvest He keepeth for us.'

suffer both to grow together till the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather up first the darnel, and bind it in bundles, to burn it, and the wheat gather up into my storehouse.'

And in that day Jesus, having gone forth from the house, was sitting by the sea, — read the full passage →

then saith he to his disciples, `The harvest indeed <FI>is<Fi> abundant, but the workmen few;

The whole day plougheth the ploughman to sow? He openeth and harroweth his ground!

`Thou dost not plow with an ox and with an ass together.

Bread-<FI> corn<Fi> is beaten small, For not for ever doth he sorely thresh it, Nor crushed <FI>it<Fi> hath a wheel of his cart, Nor do his hoofs beat it small.

And God saith, `Lo, I have given to you every herb sowing seed, which <FI>is<Fi> upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which <FI>is<Fi> the fruit of a tree sowing seed, to you it is for food;

then said he unto them, `The harvest indeed <FI>is<Fi> abundant, but the workmen few; beseech ye then the Lord of the harvest, that He may put forth workmen to His harvest.

and he spake to them many things in similes, saying: `Lo, the sower went forth to sow, — read the full passage →

Lo, I have set thee for a new sharp threshing instrument, Possessing teeth, thou threshest mountains, And beatest small, and hills as chaff thou makest.

`Jehovah commandeth with thee the blessing in thy storehouses, and in every putting forth of thy hand, and hath blessed thee in the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

during all days of the earth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, do not cease.'

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

and of doing good, and of fellowship, be not forgetful, for with such sacrifices God is well-pleased.

For not with a sharp-pointed thing threshed are fitches, And the wheel of a cart on cummin turned round, For with a staff beaten out are fitches, And cummin with a rod.

Jehovah also giveth that which is good, And our land doth give its increase.

`Thou dost not sow thy vineyard <FI>with<Fi> divers things, lest the fulness of the seed which thou dost sow, and the increase of the vineyard, be separated. — read the full passage →

`Thou dost not sow thy vineyard <FI>with<Fi> divers things, lest the fulness of the seed which thou dost sow, and the increase of the vineyard, be separated.

`And it hath been--if thou hearken diligently unto My commands which I am commanding you to-day, to love Jehovah your God, and to serve Him with all your heart, and with all your soul-- — read the full passage →

`And six years thou dost sow thy land, and hast gathered its increase; — read the full passage →

And God saith, `Let the earth yield tender grass, herb sowing seed, fruit-tree (whose seed <FI>is<Fi> in itself) making fruit after its kind, on the earth:' and it is so. — read the full passage →

For earth, that is drinking in the rain many times coming upon it, and is bringing forth herbs fit for those because of whom also it is dressed, doth partake of blessing from God,

do not say that it is yet four months, and the harvest cometh; lo, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and see the fields, that they are white unto harvest already.

and Jesus said unto him, `No one having put his hand on a plough, and looking back, is fit for the reign of God.'

and already also the axe unto the root of the trees is laid, every tree, therefore, not making good fruit is cut down, and to fire it is cast.'

whose fan <FI>is<Fi> in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and will gather his wheat to the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.'

Judah and the land of Israel--they <FI>are<Fi> thy merchants, For wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, And honey, and oil, and balm, They have given out thy merchandise.

And instruct him for judgment doth his God, He doth direct him.

Dost thou bind a Reem in a furrow <FI>with<Fi> his thick band? Doth he harrow valleys after thee?

And after him hath been Shamgar son of Anath, and he smiteth the Philistines--six hundred men--with an ox-goad, and he saveth--he also--Israel.

`And in your reaping the harvest of your land thou dost not complete the corner of thy field in thy reaping, and the gleaning of thy harvest thou dost not gather, to the poor and to the sojourner thou dost leave them; I Jehovah <FI> am<Fi> your God.'

And Isaac soweth in that land, and findeth in that year a hundredfold, and Jehovah blesseth him;

And this: He who is sowing sparingly, sparingly also shall reap; and he who is sowing in blessings, in blessings also shall reap;

and God doth give to it a body according as He willed, and to each of the seeds its proper body. — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

At that time did Jesus go on the sabbaths through the corn, and his disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck ears, and to eat,

Every tree not yielding good fruit is cut down and is cast to fire:

And it hath come to pass, In the latter end of the days, The mount of the house of Jehovah Is established above the top of the mounts, And it hath been lifted up above the hills, And flowed unto it have peoples. — read the full passage →

Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, And the rock of thy strength hast not remembered, Therefore thou plantest plants of pleasantness, And with a strange slip sowest it, — read the full passage →

In the morning sow thy seed, And at even withdraw not thy hand, For thou knowest not which is right, this or that, Or whether both of them alike <FI>are<Fi> good.

Whoso is observing the wind soweth not, And whoso is looking on the thick clouds reapeth not. — read the full passage →

And filled are thy barns <FI>with<Fi> plenty, And <FI>with<Fi> new wine thy presses break forth.

Its ridges have been filled, Deepened hath been its furrow, With showers Thou dost soften it, Its springing up Thou blessest.

And this to thee <FI>is<Fi> the sign, Food of the year <FI>is<Fi> the spontaneous growth, And in the second year the self-produced, And in the third year sow ye, and reap, And plant vineyards, and eat their fruits.

and there hath been the file for mattocks, and for coulters, and for three-pronged rakes, and for the axes, and to set up the goads.

`When thou reapest thy harvest in thy field, and hast forgotten a sheaf in a field, thou dost not turn back to take it; to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, it is; so that Jehovah thy God doth bless thee in all the work of thy hands.

`When thou comest in unto the vineyard of thy neighbour, then thou hast eaten grapes, according to thy desire, thy sufficiency; but into thy vessel thou dost not put <FI>any<Fi> . — read the full passage →

that I have given the rain of your land in its season--sprinkling and gathered--and thou hast gathered thy corn, and thy new wine, and thine oil,

`And in your reaping the harvest of your land ye do not completely reap the corner of thy field, and the gleaning of thy harvest thou dost not gather, — read the full passage →

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying unto them, — read the full passage →

and he said, This I will do, I will take down my storehouses, and greater ones I will build, and I will gather together there all my products and my good things,

`And that sown on the good ground: this is he who is hearing the word, and is understanding, who indeed doth bear fruit, and doth make, some indeed a hundredfold, and some sixty, and some thirty.'

`Ye, therefore, hear ye the simile of the sower:

look to the fowls of the heaven, for they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into storehouses, and your heavenly Father doth nourish them; are not ye much better than they?

They asked of Jehovah rain in a time of latter rain, Jehovah is making lightnings, And rain <FI>in<Fi> showers He doth give to them. To each--the herb in the field.

They have not known the thoughts of Jehovah, Nor have they understood His counsel, For He hath gathered them as a sheaf <FI>into<Fi> a threshing-floor.

And thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of their threshing Gilead with sharp-pointed irons,

Surely Gilead <FI>is<Fi> iniquity, Only, vanity they have been, In Gilead bullocks they have sacrificed, Also their altars <FI>are<Fi> as heaps, on the furrows of a field.

And we know--we pursue to know Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth, And He cometh in as a shower to us, As gathered rain--sprinkling earth.'

Speak thus--an affirmation of Jehovah, And fallen hath the carcase of man, As dung on the face of the field, And as a handful after the reaper, And there is none gathering.

At that time it is said of this people, And of Jerusalem: `A dry wind of high places in the wilderness,' The way of the daughter of My people, (Not for winnowing, nor for cleansing,)

Happy <FI>are<Fi> ye sowing by all waters, Sending forth the foot of the ox and the ass!

And each hath been as a hiding-place <FI>from<Fi> wind, And as a secret hiding-place <FI>from<Fi> inundation, As rivulets of waters in a dry place, As a shadow of a heavy rock in a weary land.

And there hath been on every high mount, And on every exalted hill, Rivulets--streams of waters, In a day of much slaughter, in the falling of towers.

And the oxen and the young asses serving the ground, Fermented provender do eat, That one is winnowing with shovel and fan.

And He hath given rain <FI>for<Fi> thy seed, With which thou dost sow the ground, And bread, the increase of the ground, And it hath been fat and plenteous, Enjoy do thy cattle in that day an enlarged pasture.

Nations as the wasting of many waters are wasted, And He hath pushed against it, And it hath fled afar off, And been pursued as chaff of hills before wind, And as a rolling thing before a hurricane.

Thou hast multiplied the nation, Thou hast made great its joy, They have joyed before Thee as the joy in harvest, As <FI>men<Fi> rejoice in their apportioning spoil.

Therefore, as a tongue of fire devoureth stubble, And flaming hay falleth, Their root is as muck, And their flower as dust goeth up. Because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of Hosts, And the saying of the Holy One of Israel despised.

What--to you? ye bruise My people, And the faces of the poor ye grind.' An affirmation of the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, And Jehovah saith: